After the extinction of dinosaurs came the age of mammals. A new book brings readers into this world with well-researched species profiles by Aaron Woodruff, collection manager for vertebrate ...

You will meet all of them in my book. But if you made me choose the single wackiest extinct mammals, I would go with the giant ground sloths of the ice age. Sloths today are small and cuddly.

Humans also cause other species to become extinct by hunting ... and was popularized by its appearance in Lewis Carroll’s book “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” Dodos were first ...

Bob Strauss is a science writer and the author of several books, including "The Big ... an order of mammals that largely went extinct in the middle Cenozoic Era. The monito del monte should ...

Among some of the extinct species Schlossman photographed, only one specimen was left – as with a small Mexican ray-finned fish, whose inclusion reflected the book’s more harrowing message.

Review: The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction – Henry Gee (Picador) While all this might sound depressing, this book is a strangely engrossing ...