Mississippi has changed over millions of years and everything from sea monster to dire wolf fossils can be found here.

Previous research has noted other megafauna fossils around 6,000 and 5,000 years old in the American continent and elsewhere, says Dimila Mothé, a paleoecologist at the Universidade Federal do ...

Australia’s giant Protemnodon kangaroos didn’t die out everywhere at the same time. Instead, extinction proceeded one habitat ...

The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...

“Fossil evidence shows that P ... maintaining the thin woodlands and the open terrain that would’ve filled out otherwise. “In the past, megafauna like the straight-tusked elephant and their regulatory ...

Even under today's climatic conditions, the long-extinct straight-tusked elephant could still live in Europe. This is the conclusion of a recent study. For this finding, the research group combined ...

Giant prehistoric kangaroos perished when "climate upheaval" turned lush Australian rainforest into desert, scientists said ...

Fossils accumulated in the caves because they ... The extinction of Australia's megafauna - long-vanished beasts such the "marsupial lion" Thylacoleo and the three-tonne Diprotodon - has long ...

A new peer-reviewed study has found that, unlike modern kangaroos, the extinct marsupial megafauna Protemnodon were less mobile, which they believe, along with a change in climate, led to their ...