Japan’s lost ‘tigers’ were actually a different big cat species, study reveals

While there are no native lion or tiger populations in Japan today, this was not always the case. Fossils indicate that at ...
Ars Technica

Megafauna was the meat of choice for South American hunters

The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study. A team of archaeologists recently examined animal bones at sites dating to the waning years of ...
Forbes

In 1883, A Rare, Horse-Like Creature Went Extinct — Here Are The Only 5 Photos Of It (Explained By A Biologist)

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...
Wichita Eagle

Bone discovered in ancient layer of Cuban cave belonged to a new extinct species

During a joint expedition to the mountains of western Cuba, researchers uncovered a rare complete bone from a bird that lived between 18,000 and 11,000 years ago. The humerus, pulled from a ...
Forbes

Meet 4 ‘Extinct’ Animals That Were Miraculously Rediscovered (Hint: One Was An Ancient Fish Found In A Fishing Net In 1938)

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...