"They are part of our national heritage." Officials announce plans to reintroduce apex predator after it has been extinct for ...

A team of researchers reconstructed an ancient marine ecosystem – and discovered a previously unseen seventh layer in its ...

An important apex predator died out 100 years ago due to overfishing and land clearing. Now, a close relative is bringing ...

The dingo is Australia’s largest terrestrial predator despite not being native to the continent. After arriving thousands of years ago, it spread across the entire mainland in just a century. Since ...

(CNN) — Tens of millions of years ago, an apex predator resembling a giant crocodile stalked the humid freshwater floodplains of southern Patagonia. Measuring up to 11.5 feet (3.5 meters) long and ...

The Cretan wildcat, known locally as the furogatos, is the island’s only wild cat and the largest carnivore on Crete.

Far too many animals from Earth’s second-most remote continent have gone extinct in the past 10,000 years. Here’s one such example. In the year 1930, a striking photograph was taken. To this day, it ...