Finding a fossil snake usually means sorting through a jumble of tiny backbones. A lone vertebra here, a rib fragment there, and plenty of guesswork about the rest of the animal. That is why an almost ...

However, these colossal creatures, reminiscent of ancient giants, have long been extinct, disappearing from the Earth during the Oligocene period. Conclusion In our exploration of the largest rhinos ...

While their absence would have probably made it even more of a paradise for prey animals, fossils unearthed in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic have revealed that these islands were ...

Animal testing remains a fundamental part of biomedical research. But as funding evaporates, mice, rats and even monkeys may be euthanized. By Emily Anthes On April 1, the Trump administration’s ...

A nearly complete skull fossil found in Egypt has revealed a new species of Hyaenodonta, an apex carnivore that mysteriously went extinct about 25 million years ago.

During the Oligocene period, the Fayum Depression was a lush, tropical rainforest. Bastetodon would have preyed on primates such as Aegyptopithecus, an ancient relative of humans, as well as early ...

The first primates arrived in the Americas about 56 million years ago and prospered for a time, but it wasn’t to be. They died out some 34 million years ago, after the Eocene-Oligocene extinction ...

Extinct 39-million-year-old whale 'may be heaviest animal that ever lived' The ancient species, named Perucetus colossus, is thought to have weighed up to 340 tonnes. Wednesday 2 August 2023 16:22, UK ...

Anthracotherium magnum was an anthracothere from the Oligocene of Eurasia Illustration: Dmitry Bogdanov Entelodonts would still have undoubtedly been intimidating animals in their time.

What do we do now? First, we need a good theory to map out the goals to which we are heading. My theory, the Capabilities Approach (CA), rejects the idea that we ought to rank animals by their ...