Learn more about how mastodons in South America once helped with seed dispersal.

New fossil evidence shows that South America’s extinct mastodons were vital seed dispersers, and their loss still haunts ...

Distributing seeds is among plants’ key challenges, and many have turned to animals for help. However, some get over-reliant ...

“If we’re talking about species we drove extinct, then I think we have an obligation to try to do this,” says Michael Archer, a paleontologist at the University of New South Wales who has ...

Nearly half of all freshwater American crayfish are at risk of extinction. As a keystone species in South Carolina, what ...

A new exhibit at Shenandoah Caverns includes the replica of a skull of a now-extinct pig-like animal discovered inside the ...

Check out our coverage on species revival, the topic of a Friday TEDx talk at National Geographic. In the movie Jurassic Park, a tree extinct for ... all of western North America's old-growth ...

Early pterosaurs loved temperate and humid habitats – and it might explain why their fossils are hard to find today.

The Robberg is one of southern Africa's most distinctive and widespread stone tool technologies. Robberg tools—which we found ...

A daily mail service has been established between Las Vegas, Beatty and Bullfrog. The mail contractor is Lawrence Kendall of ...

Last year, there were 450 black bear sightings in the region, according to the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources ...