Around 800,000 to 900,000 years ago, a genetic bottleneck occurred, drastically reducing the human population. This event led ...

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

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

In the early 1990s, when I first moved to Montana, I learned that come fall, the average Treasure State angler lost interest in fish and began dreaming of elk. I got in the act myself, killing a ...

A fossil discovery in New Zealand reveals a giant penguin ancestor species that thrived in warm seas three million years ago.

Dr. Julie Meachen, lead paleontologist and a professor at Des Moines University recently talked about Wyoming’s Natural Trap ...

Rice’s whale is the only baleen whale species that lives year round in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico in the continental ...

The name “lion” doesn’t only apply to the king of the jungle. Perhaps in a nod of deference, there are many animals that ...

One of the world’s rarest mammals can be found in America. Known as red wolves, they are among the rarest in the world, but there was a time when their range reached from southe ...

The newly-discovered penguin species went extinct when the ice age hit, but researchers don't think the cold was to blame for ...