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

In the late 1990s in the Ajimu region of Japan's Oita Prefecture, researchers discovered three fossilized vertebrae belonging ...

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 ...

La Brea Tar Pits will close July 6 for a two-year, mammoth-scale overhaul, as staff painstakingly pack 3.5 million fragile Ice Age fossils into crates. When the museum reopens in 2028, it will anchor ...

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. Trump stuns ...

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 ...

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 ...

The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study. A team of archaeologists recently examined animal bones at sites dating to the waning years of ...