Such fossils are a gift from the past ... incredible specimens of recently-extinct animals, like mammoths and woolly rhinoceros, the chances of finding a complete T-rex is as close as you can ...

Some of the oldest mammoth fossils have been hidden in the permafrost for centuries. Today the permafrost is rapidly thawing as a result of climate change, and fossils are washing into the Adycha ...

A recent study has reclassified the species commonly known as the Javan rhinoceros, proposing a more precise scientific name: Eurhinoceros sondaicus. The research highlights key differences in body ...

It is superseded in size only by the elephant and the white rhinoceros, with males weighing more than 2,000 kg and females reaching 1,600 kg. Fossil evidence confirms that these differences ...

Extinction is still forever, but scientists at the biotech company Colossal Biosciences are trying what they say is the next best thing to restoring ancient beasts — genetically engineeri ...

A study reveals major differences between the Sundaic and Indian rhinoceroses, leading scientists to propose a new classification for the Sundaic species as Eurhinoceros sondaicus. A new study has ide ...

Feb. 27, 2025 — Researchers examined dozens of bird species in museum collections looking for differences in the feathers and bodies between birds that can fly and birds that can't. They found ...

Poll: Should we bring back woolly mammoths? Discover more animal news — 125 million-year-old fossil of giant venomous scorpion that lived alongside dinosaurs discovered in China ...

Though its sociable or solitary nature is currently unknown, the Dinocrocuta was undoubtedly a skilled predator of creatures like the tusked rhinoceros called the Chilotherium. There is evidence of a ...