Paleontologists have made an "amazing" fossil discovery in Australia that has shed new light on a giant and enigmatic prehistoric goose-like bird. A team from Flinders University in Australia ...

New research reveals that the extinction of New Zealand’s giant, flightless moa was inevitable after human arrival. Using ...

New research has confirmed that moa, New Zealand’s giant, flightless birds, went extinct within just 300 years of human ...

melilutra’s jaws would have been strong enough to crush the shells of big mollusks or the bones of birds and small mammals like rodents ... it's possible that an abundance of big clams drove these ...

The Galapagos Rail had not been seen on this island since Charles Darwin's visit to the archipelago in 1835, until now.

Scientists have discovered a rare fossil of a giant, venomous scorpion that lived ... making it a significant predator. This prehistoric scorpion likely hunted insects, small reptiles, and even ...

Then, it was never seen on the island again — until now. “The Galápagos rail, a secretive bird thought to be extinct on Floreana, has been found on the island for the first time since Charles ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

They went extinct 12,000 years ago. The Moa were a giant flightless bird from New Zealand that reached 12 feet tall and weighed more than 500 pounds. They died out because of over hunting by the ...