Join me as I crack open another book (or two) on my shelf and try to learn about every animal missing from this continent! Jack Flaherty won’t return to the Dodgers after winning the World ...

Just in the past decade, two mammal species have gone extinct: a bat known as the ... what goes for mammals goes for just about every other animal group: reptiles, amphibians, fish, even insects.

The field of paleo-inspired robotics is opening up a new way to turn back time and studying prehistoric animals.

In the distant past, evolution saw extinct animals that once dominated the earth die out to make way for new species, but that's not what's happening here. While the clock ticks through a single ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. A naked mole rat. That was photographer Joel Sartore’s first model in 2006 when he began making studio portraits of ...

“Every day going into the lab ... no one has ever found viable mammoth cells frozen in ice. And even if an extinct animal could be brought back, she thought, it’d be returning to an altered ...

Should we bring extinct species back to life? Sometimes whole species of animals or plants become extinct due to the changes in their habitat, predators or disease. But over the last 500 years ...

Every Wednesday we ask our Brain Game contestants ... While searching for lists of extinct animals on Google, there was one particular species that caught my eye. A woolly rhinoceros.

Extinct species are every bit as interesting as those that ... drop if they had survived into the present-day. The class of animals that we refer to as “reptiles” or “reptilia” came ...

Chinese paddlefish. It was one of the largest freshwater fish (it could reach up to seven metres in length) and lived for more than 200 million years in the Yangtze River. It has vanished mainly ...