Buffalo's legendary snowfall totals are largely the result of one unlucky geographic reality: the city sits east of the Great Lakes instead of west. Anyone who has lived through a winter in Buffalo, ...

A new study shows how the loss of large animals thousands of years ago still shapes ecosystems today and may affect their future stability.

In 2016, Australian beachcombers uncovered fossils that revealed Australia’s ancient megafauna, including giant marsupials ...

New research suggests that the severity of ancient megafauna extinctions continues to influence food webs in some parts of the world today. The study, published in PNAS, analysed predator-prey ...

A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that the extinction of large mammals between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago permanently altered predator-prey networks, ...

A new study in PNAS shows that the extinction of large mammals between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago permanently altered predator-prey networks, especially in the Americas. These simplified food webs ...

A continent-wide genomic study of both savanna and forest elephants in Africa has found that African elephants once roamed widely, both species exchanging genes throughout their range. However, as ...

A study published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology describes a new species of dinosaur discovered during construction of a road-rail terminal in the city of Davinópolis in the state of ...

How extinction of giant ice age beasts could still affect food chains - Loss of species including mammoths, saber-tooth cats and direwolves has had long-lasting impacts and could tell us how biodivers ...