Humans have been around on Earth for thousands of years, but there was a period when humanity was almost wiped out of ...

The story of bringing dire wolves back from extinction begins not in a laboratory, but in ancient deposits where their ...

Research data suggests humans may have nearly gone extinct almost 1 million years ago, but scientists aren't sure why.

Furthermore, a 2010 study on the late Pleistocene extinctions, published in PNAS, similarly concluded that the arrival of humans was likely decisive in southwestern Australian 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. ... Kangaroo species went extinct in the Pleistocene.

On Monday, biotech company Colossal announced what it views as its first successful de-extinction: the dire wolf. These large predators were lost during the Late Pleistocene extinctions that ...

And then, at the end of the Pleistocene Epoch about 12,000 years ago, most of them vanished. Scientists have argued for decades about the cause of their extinction.

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 theories suggest why.

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 theories suggest why.

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 theories suggest why.