There was a lot of hype about an American company's announcement about ancient dire wolves. It raises questions about the bid ...

Scientists are working these days to bring back creatures from the past that either went extinct due to the environment or at ...

The eastern and southern forests of Australia are home to koalas. This habitat is being destroyed by human deforestation as ...

Dozens of Australian mammal species have declined and gone extinct since European colonisation – and introduced predators are ...

The belly button, or navel, is a scar that forms after the umbilical cord is detached shortly after birth. The umbilical cord ...

From dire wolves to woolly mammoths, the idea of resurrecting extinct species has captured the public imagination. Colossal ...

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has revealed.

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Marsupial moles have been known to science for over a century, and to indigenous peoples for many thousands of years, but they remain amongst the least known and elusive animals in Australia ...

The Western Ringtail Possum is an arboreal, herbivorous marsupial endemic to the south-west of WA. It depends on high quality forage from myrtaceous tree species. Western Ringtail Possums disappeared ...

Even Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood chimed in, saying the animal had “escaped due to a bear entering its enclosure." About three weeks later, FWC officials confirmed the kangaroo had been located ...

March 24 (Reuters) - Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has increasingly spread to mammals and infected hundreds of people, raising concerns that it may lead to human-to ...