One of the most intriguing and intricate mysteries in paleontology is the disappearance of North America's giant mammals, or ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, during the late Pleistocene, many large animal species were simply erased from the planet during a widespread extinction. In Australia, nearly two dozen kangaroo ...

Three million years ago, an extinct relative of today's great penguins—emperors and kings—lived in Aotearoa New Zealand.

New fossil and genetic evidence shows that woolly and Columbian mammoths were not just distant cousins roaming separate parts ...

Ancient mammoth remains preserved microbial DNA over a million years old. The study reveals long-term host-microbe ...

Prehistoric kangaroos in southern Australia had a more general diet than previously assumed, giving rise to new ideas about their survival and resilience to climate change, and the final extinction of ...

Extinctions are for real -- Santa Rosalia, or why are there so many kinds of living things? -- Biotic armageddon: Déjà vu over and over again -- Patterns and clues in Palezoic mass extinctions -- ...

In a mass extinction event some 40,000 years ago, Australia lost 90% of its large species, including nearly two dozen kinds of kangaroos. Two... Kangaroo species went extinct in the Pleistocene.