Whenever an animal species drops into the single digits, every risk to them matters. While not necessarily a common ...
More than 14,000 years ago, a wolf pup ate a piece of woolly rhino. Scientists have analyzed the rhino's DNA to figure out ...
The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ...
Studying how ancient animals lived and why they died out can offer important insight to protecting species today.
Lions in Kenya respond very differently to human land use, climate and conservation practices. That is the conclusion of ...
On the vast expanse of the Siberian steppe 14,000 years ago, a 2-month-old wolf pup gobbled down some woolly rhinoceros flesh. Moments later, its underground den collapsed, killing ...
Oklahoma did not choose the American buffalo as its state mammal simply because it looked good on souvenirs and roadside ...
COLUMN. British anthropologist Mark Dyble analyzed genetic data from 70 mammalian species to gain a deeper understanding of ...
Humans have undoubtedly bred cats to create certain breeds, but did any of these feline breeds emerge naturally?
Tree planting rarely has a 100 per cent success rate first time around, Nicholson points out. When his company planted ...
A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...