What do you do when a brown bear has dental problems? In the case of Duluth, Minnesota's Lake Superior Zoo, you create a record-breaking dental crown. The beloved zoo shared on social media that Dr.

Kristen Miller, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at KU’s Biodiversity Institute, analyzed the Texan fossils to ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the ...

Most of these extinct sloths also didn't live in trees, because they were too big. The largest sloths, in the genus Megatherium, were about the size of Asian bull elephants and weighed roughly ...

Prehistoric Water Bears Found Trapped in Amber _ 7 Days of Science. Posted: May 2, 2025 | Last updated: May 2, 2025. In this week's 7 Days of Science, there's some amazing news about the geology ...

The Formosan black bear joins a fascinating list of species that have returned from presumed extinction. The coelacanth, a prehistoric fish thought extinct for 65 million years, shocked scientists ...

The Formosan black bear joins a fascinating list of species that have returned from presumed extinction. The coelacanth, a prehistoric fish thought extinct for 65 million years, shocked scientists ...

Did you know Native Americans once shared the land with some truly wild creatures that are now extinct? 🦣 From woolly mammoths to saber-toothed cats, these animals roamed North America ...

Indeed, this cave bear is so well preserved that even its nose, fur, and teeth are still completely intact. The mummified cave bear is of the extinct species Ursus spelaeus, which lived in Eurasia ...

Being a giant predator during the Pleistocene — from around 2.6 million years to about 11,000 years ago — was no easy feat. From short-faced bears to Ice Age coyotes, American cheetahs, dire wolves, ...