Massive tunnels have been discovered in South America, but what animal made them? Learn about the tunnels created by ...

Today’s land animals are a bunch of runts compared with creatures from the not-too-distant past. Beasts as big as elephants, gorillas and bears were once much more common around the world. Then, ...

Forty-three scientists from around the globe co-authored an article that discusses the potentially grim future of the planet’s megafauna (animals over 90 pounds). Titled “Saving the World’s ...

A new Oxford-led study reveals Africa’s animal energy flow has fallen to two-thirds of historic levels, with big consequences ...

Learn how researchers used mass spectrometry of collagen to successfully identify some of Australia’s megafauna. Identifying prehistoric Australian megafauna from fossils may have gotten easier thanks ...

Beginning 80,00 years ago, many of prehistory’s most famous large animals, including mammoths, wooly rhinos and sabertooth tigers, began to vanish from the Earth. We’ve never been able to say why — ...

Giant ancient animals known as megafauna, originally thought to have gone extinct due to the arrival of human beings, have now been found to have perished for other reasons. In a paper published in ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Madagascar is renowned for its unique and varied biodiversity, which spans dry grasslands, wet rain forests, mangroves and deserts. This variety, combined with the island's isolation and size, has ...

Staggering population declines in the world's freshwater megafauna (big fish, dolphins, crocodiles, etc.) have been revealed in a study published in Global Change Biology. The study, spanning 42 years ...

There used to be a type of elephant called Palaeoloxodon that could have rested its chin on the head of a modern African elephant. There was a hornless rhino called Paraceratherium, which was at least ...