On Thursday, July 16, join Harris Center Naturalist Susie Spikol for a fascinating journey to the Ice Age to discover the colossal beasts that once roamed New England.

For the Tasmanian devil, time is running short as the species faces shrinking genetic diversity. As the largest living ...

The cave lion was one of the biggest cats to ever live, prowling a huge swath of territory from Western Europe across Siberia and into North America and hunting large prey — and perhaps even people — ...

Researchers in Taiwan traced a donated fossil bone to an unrecognized Ice Age bird. It wasn't just any bird, but rather an ...

Scientists compared cave lion genomes to modern lions Ice Age apex predator was larger than its modern cousin Lived in Western Europe, Siberia and into North America Cave lions went extinct roughly 14 ...

The megafaunal extinctions of the late Pleistocene epoch took out 90% of Australia's large species — and nearly 40% of those were kangaroos. What exactly happened? It ain't pretty. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ...

Researchers have identified fossil evidence of a giant python — estimated to exceed 13 feet in length — that once lived on Taiwan, an island where no pythons exist today. The surprising discovery is ...

Pythons are a common sight across much of Asia, especially in the tropical jungles and wetlands of countries like Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia. But one curious exception has been the main island of ...

A fossil trunk vertebra from the Chiting Formation of Taiwan reveals that nearly 4-m-long pythons roamed the island during the Middle Pleistocene. Python is a genus comprising nearly ten species of ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, Australia was still home to enigmatic megafauna – large land animals such as giant marsupial wombats, flightless birds, and short-faced giant kangaroos known as ...