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

Ten thousand years ago, mastodons vanished from South America. With them, an ecologically vital function also disappeared: ...

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 ...

A study with the involvement of the UAB, IPHES-CERCA and URV, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, provides for the first ...

In the grand tapestry of life on Earth, the threads of countless species have been woven ... curid=95659958 Widely considered extinct since mid-20th century, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, native to ...

It has been calculated that between 0.01 and 0.1% of all species will become extinct yearly. Based on this estimation, between 200 and 2,000 extinctions occur every year. Splendid Poison frog (Oophaga ...

If the cave art painting really captures a dicynodont, it predates formal paleontology. They've been extinct for about 250 ...

“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 ...

Ten thousand years after mastodons disappeared, scientists have unearthed powerful fossil evidence proving these elephant ...

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