Paleontologists have uncovered the 11 million-year-old fossil of an ancestor of the giant panda in Germany, revealing surprising insights into the panda's evolutionary past.

Paleontologists recently discovered an omnivorous ancestor of the giant panda, Kretzoiarctos beatrix, at a fossil site in ...

Marine fossils that are 8.7 million years old have been found under a high school in Los Angeles. These incredible finds ...

He also described the company's efforts to bring back other species, such as the saber tooth tiger and woolly mammoth, and he explained how the company created a woolly mouse. On his LinkedIn page ...

A Texas-based genetics company says the long-extinct dire wolf is back. Some critics say that's not quite true.

It is as strategic as it is media-savvy, guaranteeing spectacular photos and videos, and neatly fitting into the narrative of charismatic megafauna like the saber-toothed tiger. The dire wolf’s genome ...

These “super croc” apex predators had six-inch teeth and were, at one time, the largest predator in North America, according ...

Despite their fictional significance, dire wolves were real-world predators that lurked across North America with mastodons and saber tooth tigers during the Ice Age. They hunted horses ...