Fifty thousand years ago, North America's landscapes were alive with an astonishing array of enormous creatures. Massive ...

The devastating parasite eats cattle and other animals alive and has travelled north from Central America to Mexico. In response to the spread within 700 miles of the Texas border, Washington ...

On November 22, the United States Department of Agriculture temporarily halted the import of cattle from Mexico after a flesh-eating parasite was detected in animals in southern Mexico. Before the ...

The ivory-billed woodpecker, a spectacular bird long thought to be extinct, has been found alive in North America, Science magazine reports. The news has stunned ornithologists worldwide, with some ...

CHICAGO, June 2 (Reuters) - New World Screwworm, a devastating parasite that eats cattle and other wild animals alive, is traveling north from Central America to Mexico and has crept past ...

These whooping cranes embody one of North America’s greatest conservation success stories. Yet they remain the rarest of 15 crane species found throughout the world and are still endangered.

The Earth has been home to many amazing creatures, some of which were so huge that they would dwarf the largest animals alive today. ... It lived in North America about 68 to 65 million years ago.

The bones of a child who died nearly 13,000 years ago suggest that the people who moved from Asia into North America at this time ate a lot ... when compared with other animals alive at this ...