There’s something intriguing, even frightening, about the image of an ancient horned serpent roaming across the land. Thanks to some suggestive fossils and legends of old, talk of such a creature ...

On a lawn inside the Bronx Zoo, rows of headstones display multiple animal species, making for an eerie display during the month of October. An Instagram post from an account known as Inside History ...

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...

Jason M Ramos/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0 Prehistoric Earth was a terrifying place, with giant, fearsome creatures roaming an equally deadly world of erupting volcanoes and primordial swamps. Survival ...

An illustration of Procoptodon goliah, a giant kangaroo that weighed up to about 550 pounds and went extinct around 40,000 years ago Nobu Tamura via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-3.0 For many people, ...

In April of 2025, headlines across the world announced that the dire wolf had been brought back from extinction. This 130-150 ...

Brandon Ballengée’s ‘Frameworks of Absence’ (2006–ongoing) in the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts booth at the 2015 Armory Show (photo by Jillian Steinhauer/Hyperallergic) (click to enlarge) The animals have ...

On the second floor of a sleek but unremarkable office building just west of downtown Dallas, Texas, an animatronic white wolf stands atop a promontory, slowly surveying the vast entry area for ...

Thought to have vanished forever, this mysterious creature has been rediscovered in the remote forests of Northern California ...

Scientists have rediscovered two tiny creatures thought extinct for more than 7,000 years in the forests of New Guinea ...