We can study animals from all over the world thanks to science, but what about those that no longer exist? The list of extinct mammals could go on for ages, but each animal has a unique story. With ...

An international research team has uncovered 270-million-year-old fossil tracks belonging to a dog-like predator ...

"Prehistoric World" is a new book by Aaron Woodruff, the museum's collection manager for vertebrate paleontology. It includes profiles and illustrations of prehistoric mammals such as Livyatan ...

Largely outshone by fossils of horses, the earliest camels are getting another look from scientists determined to sort out ...

Prehistoric humans hunt a woolly mammoth. More and more research shows that this species – and at least 46 other species of megaherbivores – were driven to extinction by humans. The debate has raged ...

The once-extinct dire wolf species, popularized in HBO's "Game of Thrones," has been brought back. But were Colossal Biosciences scientists behind the de-extinction so preoccupied with whether or not ...

This prehistoric predator dominated the ancient landscape with its massive frame and bone-crushing bite and will offer guests ...

New research led by UNSW Sydney paleontologists challenges the idea that Indigenous Australians hunted Australia's megafauna to extinction, suggesting instead they were fossil collectors.