Isolation allows creatures to thrive as their relatives perish due to the threats present on much larger landmasses ...

While fossil trackways are widely used to estimate the speed of extinct animals, especially dinosaurs, new research suggests ...

A Bizarre Beak And Jaw Built For Power. What the research team discovered is unlike any other known prehistoric bird anatomy. The skull exhibits a combination of traits that point toward both ...

Before the study, the earliest known evidence of birds reproducing in polar regions was from about 47 million years ago, millions of years after an asteroid hit the planet and killed 75 percent of the ...

Prehistoric bird used club-like wings as weapon Date: January 5, 2011 Source: Yale University Summary: Paleontologists have discovered that Xenicibis, a member of the ibis family that lived about ...

Prehistoric Body Theater brings ancient creatures to life through dance in the U.S. premiere of "Ghosts of Hell Creek: Stone ...

A Bizarre Beak And Jaw Built For Power. What the research team discovered is unlike any other known prehistoric bird anatomy. The skull exhibits a combination of traits that point toward both ...

Thousands of years ago Britain was home to over a dozen reptiles and amphibians, many now extinct here. One, the prehistoric-looking European pond terrapin, would have been common in wet and damp ...

Of the 350 parrot species alive today, the heaviest is the kakapo, a flightless bird also native to New Zealand. But the extinct parrot, dubbed Heracles inexpectatus, crushes the kakapo’s record ...

Colossal's new AI algorithm can detect the tooth-billed pigeon's calls, helping conservationists locate the lost species.

And while some mammals, birds, small reptiles, fish, and amphibians survived, diversity among the remaining life-forms dropped precipitously. In total, this mass extinction event claimed three ...

AI is helping rescue a nearly extinct bird species. Mashable. Thu, May 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM UTC. 10 min read.