The Mapinguari, a creature reported in South American rainforests, matches eerily well with descriptions of the presumed-extinct giant ground ... was the largest ape ever known.

Most of us are familiar with sloths, the bear-like animals that hang from trees, live life in the slow lane, take a month to ...

Caves can be found on the western flank of Mount Etna. Giant kangaroos stuck close to home and went extinct when climate change caused that home to disappear, according to a study published April ...

A giant kangaroo that once thrived on the Australia continent became extinct due to an unfortunate, and rather stubborn, behaviour. It simply didn’t like to travel. Scientists made the discovery ...

We discovered fossilised teeth of the now extinct giant kangaroo genus Protemnodon at Mount Etna Caves, north of Rockhampton, in central eastern Queensland. Analysing the teeth gave us a glimpse ...

Measurements of three Danuvius limb bones, two of which come from the same adult male, indicate that this extinct ape relied equally on its forelimbs and hind limbs. Comparisons of two Danuvius ...

Giant prehistoric kangaroos perished when "climate ... almost twice as hefty as the chunkiest living kangaroos—the extinct "Protemnodon" bounded across Australia as many as five million years ...

“Using data from modern kangaroos, we predicted these giant extinct kangaroos would have much larger home ranges,” Christopher Laurikainen Gaete, a researcher at the University of Wollongong, ...

Photo shows A skeleton of a giant extinct kangaroo placed over a white background. The bones are brown and arranged horizontally. Researchers from Flinders University have described three new ...