Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...

What the dodo symbolizes has changed over time. It has been, variously, a parable, a joke and a warning. When we see it as an ...

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Since the discovery, researchers spent more than two years meticulously studying the remains of a million-year-old face. They ...

The End-Permian mass extinction killed an estimated 80% of life on Earth, but new research suggests that plants might have ...

In June 1844, farmers Jón Brandsson and Sigurður Ísleifsson, along with 12 others, made the perilous journey by boat from ...

The chocolate industry's insatiable demand for cocoa is pushing the Goliath beetle to the brink of extinction.

Few people could write so genially, even humorously, about our existential crisis. Henry Gee can, in his excellent new book ...

who experts believe went extinct roughly 40,000 years ago, intertwined with modern humans and just how that still plays out in the DNA of today. Tim Newcomb is a journalist based in the Pacific ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...