Named for the crone-bird hybrid of Greek mythology, the appearance of this large and majestic raptor is worthy of the ...

The repeated evolution of huge birds is part of the dinosaurian legacy. Beaked birds were the only dinosaurs to have survived ...

Giant kangaroos stayed local, and rapid climate change gradually destroyed their lush rainforest home, leading to extinction.

The bones of butchered and cooked animals have been found in the most high-status graves. Some hold the skulls of wild sheep, but one specific burial has the breastbone, a great bustard with cut marks ...

Fossils reveal that sebecids, long-extinct land predators, survived far longer in the Caribbean than previously thought, ...

A new peer-reviewed study has found that, unlike modern kangaroos, the extinct marsupial megafauna Protemnodon were less ...

So many extinction-level events happened in ancient times, it is a wonder anything survived. These the ones that killed the ...

Dire wolves — or really, wolves with traits like the extinct species — are back. But New York has plenty of its own ...

A long time ago, strange predators roamed the Caribbean — not just birds and snakes, but land-dwelling crocodiles that ...

Ethicists and conservationists appear to be divided over what the purpose of bringing back extinct species should be – and ...