Researchers dated all three cub specimens between 20,000 to 50,000 years ago, around the same time the ancient cave lion population became extinct. Like the wolf’s head, the lion cubs were ...

They teased ancient DNA out of museum specimens of Dusicyon australis and compared it with the genetic code of a similar-sized extinct mainland canine, the South American maned wolf (Dusicyon avus).

They found that the now-extinct giant wolf variant arrived in the Japanese ... “Our cutting-edge ancient DNA analysis has allowed us to explore the mysteries of evolution that are difficult ...

In January while home at Spring Point Farm, West Falklands he found parts of a Warrah – the Falklands wolf – a species that has been extinct for more than 130 years. The Islands’ only land ...

All around the world, scientists are working to recreate lost animal species such as the mammoth. Using modern genetic ...

OMACHI, Nagano Prefecture--Fangs deemed to be from an extinct Japanese wolf species that people in bygone times wore as talismans to ward off evil were found by a curator combing through the ...