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

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

In 1978, renowned ecologist Dan Janzen jumped into a ravine in Costa Rica, broke three ribs, and spent the first month of the ...

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 ...