In a mass extinction event some 40,000 years ago, Australia lost 90% of its large species, including nearly two dozen kinds ...
The extinction of the megafauna—giant marsupials that lived in Australia until 60,000 to 45,000 years ago—is a topic of ...
A lion has been spotted in Chad's Sena Oura National Park, where the big cats have not been seen since 2004 and were believed to be extinct until now. A photo of a lioness was released by a team ...
Thylacoleo carnifex is commonly referred to as a marsupial lion, largely because of the cat ... during the Pleistocene period and became extinct about 50,000 years ago. Its evolutionary history ...
Now, one tiny marsupial in Australia is bucking that trend, remerging after a century of being presumed extinct, and it was found by scientists who weren’t even really looking for it.
The group of Australian and US scientists plan to take stem cells from a living marsupial species with similar DNA, and then use gene-editing technology to "bring back" the extinct species - or an ...
A third option also considers a combination of these two factors. More than half of the extinct marsupial megafauna were kangaroos. Most, though not all of these, were sthenurines or short-faced ...