Sloths have changed quite a bit in the last ten thousand years. The slow-moving, sleepy, leaf-eating creature we see hanging ...

Despite our best efforts, there are many species of animals that become extinct every year. There are thousands of species of fish in the world, but sadly, many species of fish have disappeared ...

The previously unnamed species of elasmosaur is being called Traskasaura sandrae in honour of Mike Trask, who in 1988 ...

Sloths have a reputation for being sluggish and slow, spending most of their lives dozing in trees, but a new study suggests ...

and fossilized skeletons, with the ultimate goal of restoring the fauna to their natural habitat. Advocates say resurrecting extinct animals is attracting new investors with deep pockets to ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the ...

The anatomy of the animal’s limbs and claws indicate ... “This fossil skeleton provides new evidence concerning how placental mammals diversified ecologically following the extinction of the dinosaurs ...

“Armita came to my lab interested in understanding more about how joints work in the vertebrate skeleton,” Stephen Gatesy, Manafzadeh’s dissertation advisor at Brown, said. “Trying to reconstruct an ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo ... a digital 3D model of the bird Hume developed based on a skeleton from the Durban Natural Science Museum in South Africa ...

The previously unnamed species of elasmosaur is being called Traskasaura sandrae in honour of Mike Trask, who in 1988 ...