What South Africa’s West Coast might have looked like 5 million years ago. In the foreground, a giant wolverine feeds on a pig while chasing away a primitive hyena. Credit: Maggie Newman, Geological ...

The de-extinction of the dire wolf began with a tooth from Ohio. According to CrisPR, the tooth from Sheridan Pit in Wyandot County, adjacent to Crawford County, was one of two pieces of dire wolf ...

Fossil finds like the one from Verduno are rare. Despite its evolutionary importance, complete fossils of Eucyon are extremely rare, making it difficult to reconstruct the history ...

The story of bringing dire wolves back from extinction begins not in a laboratory, but in ancient deposits where their remains lay buried for millennia. The genetic material that would eventually give ...

The La Brea Tar Pits are a group of natural asphalt pools in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles. In the middle of the nation’s second-largest city, millions of fossils of animals that were ...