Today’s land animals are a bunch of runts compared with creatures from the not-too-distant past. Beasts as big as elephants, gorillas and bears were once much more common around the world. Then, ...

Scientists have collected ancient RNA from mammoth samples up to 52,000 years old. Learn how they can use that RNA to ...

Giant ancient animals known as megafauna, originally thought to have gone extinct due to the arrival of human beings, have now been found to have perished for other reasons. In a paper published in ...

Madagascar is renowned for its unique and varied biodiversity, which spans dry grasslands, wet rain forests, mangroves and deserts. This variety, combined with the island's isolation and size, has ...

When the first humans reached Australia 60,000 years ago, they walked into a land ruled by giant kangaroos, 10-meter snakes, hippo-sized wombats, and deadly predators like the marsupial lion. Cut off ...

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Madagascar is renowned for its unique and varied biodiversity, which spans dry grasslands, wet rain forests, mangroves and deserts. This variety, combined with the island’s isolation and size, has ...

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Scientists have now quantified the global decline of big freshwater animals: From 1970 to 2012, global populations of freshwater megafauna declined by 88 percent - twice the loss of vertebrate ...