Clearly, no Australian government is likely to spend anything like that on protecting its native animals, even though it will ...

This is the Southern Darwin Frog, named after the famed scientist. The creatures were first discovered in Chile in 1841, but recently they nearly went extinct after the chytrid fungus wiped out 90% of ...

He and other researchers suspect that the scars were carved by giant ground sloths that roamed the region until they went extinct more than 10,000 years ago. “This is an archaeological and ...

A crocodile-like creature bit the neck of a flying dinosaur some 76 million years ago – and scientists have proof. Archaeologists found the fossilized neck bone of the young pterosaur in Canada ...

Left: An illustration of a pterosaur by Julius Csotonyi. Right: The neck vertebra of cryodrakon boreas is on display in the Royal Tyrrell Museum’s Fossils in Focus exhibit, where visitors can ...

The vertebra belonged to a juvenile Azhdarchid pterosaur, a species of giant, prehistoric flying reptile with bones similar to birds, making them thin and typically poorly preserved, researchers said.