Located at the San Diego Zoo, Gramma, the resident tortoise, was born in the Galapagos Islands around 1884. Those at the zoo referred to her as “the queen,” which only makes sense, as she survived two ...

The curious minds at What If explore what happens if giant insects never went extinct, revealing human survival challenges, ecosystems, and predation dynamics.

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...

Previous research indicated that kangaroos weighing more than about 350 pounds would rupture their ankle tendons if they tried to hop. The largest of the Ice Age kangaroos, Procoptodon goliah, which ...

An ancient giant kangaroo that lived in Australia 50,000 years ago likely hopped after all, refuting past research on the ...

Three Andean condors have been released into the Patagonia National Park in Chile to help protect the species, which is vital ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

Over the last 100,000 years, 64 percent of large animal species have gone extinct. The loss of large animals like mammoths, mastodons and giant ground sloths has been somewhat evenly spread over all ...

After the last confirmed female died in 2023, the Yangtze giant softshell turtle now hangs on with just two known survivors.