As the sun began to sink over the grasslands of central Mongolia, a herd of stocky, dun-colored horses emerged from a rocky outcrop on a slope where they had been sheltering from the blazing heat of a ...

The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study.

They have a new lease on life thanks in large part to reintroduction efforts. Trail cameras capture rare footage of creatures ...

The DNA belonged to an extinct horse genus and is the oldest genome ever collected from an open-air site. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: ...

The entire world’s population of Przewalski’s horses once dwindled to a mere dozen. So how did a pair named Fiona and Shrek end up in livestock auctions in the West? The Great Read The entire world’s ...

“The extinction of the slender-billed curlew is a tragic and sobering moment for migratory bird conservation," said Amy Fraenkel, executive secretary of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory ...

Largely outshone by fossils of horses, the earliest camels are getting another look from scientists determined to sort out ...