We are researching the cause of megafaunal extinction in the last major extinction event. Hundreds of large mammal species disappeared during the transition from the last glaciation to the present ...
A giant Ice Age bear and a five-foot beaver are the ... said that she had a "very long list" of extinct animals she hopes to bring back. The expert said the goal is the make extinction a "thing ...
In the case of mammals, the best-studied group of animals, the fossil record indicates that the “background” rate of extinction, the one that prevailed before humans entered the picture ...
Broad diets would have made short-faced kangaroos well adapted to the last ice age in Australia, bringing diet-based extinction scenarios ... When an animal chews its food, the food leaves ...
Prey in the ice age was plentiful ... there was great excitement over what extinct animal it could have belonged to. Before becoming president, Thomas Jefferson was head of the American ...
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 ...
Broad diets would have made short-faced kangaroos well adapted to the last ice age in Australia, bringing diet-based extinction scenarios ... When an animal chews its food, the food leaves ...
Between snowy winters and holiday songs, many animals come to mind during Christmas ... meaning they face a high risk of extinction in the wild. The IUCN estimates there are roughly 26,000 ...