We know, for example, that underneath all that hair, the woolly mammoth looked pretty much like a larger version of the Asian ...

With their slender bodies and long front legs, Miracinonyx trumani—often nicknamed the "American cheetah"—was long thought to be a North American analog of the African big cat. But in a new study ...

Had Donald Trump been president in 1973, when Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act into federal law, the Gunnison ...

The NFL has been a "head coach, offensive play caller, and quarterback league" for a while now. The Cleveland Browns hope they have the first two locked up with HC Todd Monken, but few believe that ...

More than 90,000 wild horses and burros make their homes on public lands in the Western US, and each year, the federal ...

Newly sequenced DNA from bones found in the Yukon and Wyoming reveals that despite its slender body, Miracinonyx trumani is ...

The Art of Extinct Species” is now on display with more than 50 works by 34 artists who have painted, photographed, sketched ...

The horses, which range from the Dakotas to Arizona, are "living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West." ...

Until not long ago, the Przewalski's horse was extinct in the wild. Due to the usual medley of human activity, habitat loss, ...

In the heart of urban Los Angeles lie the La Brea Tar Pits, a group of natural asphalt seeps made famous by the millions of ice age fossils preserved within the bubbling, dark pools of goo.

The discovery of animals preserved in ice provides us with extraordinary glimpses into Earth’s past. Unlike traditional fossils that typically preserve only bones and hard tissues, ice-preserved ...