More than 75 million years ago, a giant reptile known as the “terror crocodile” roamed the waters of North America.

Fifty thousand years ago, North America was home to towering giants. Mammoths roamed the tundra, saber-toothed cats hunted in ...

Ornithologist Bruce Beehler tracks down what he calls the “Magnificent Seven,” a charismatic group of migratory birds, in his ...

North American species like the Colorado potato beetle and the fall armyworm have become invasive elsewhere. Illustration by Marilyn Foehrenbach Q: In North America, we worry about invasive ...

Dire wolves — or really, wolves with traits like the extinct species — are back. But New York has plenty of its own ...

Wild turkeys are on the minds of a lot of Minnesotans right now, given that the spring wild turkey hunting season is upon us.

Colossal, the company looking to bring back the woolly mammoth from extinction has born three dire wolves, an animal extinct ...

This is especially true for bees, with over one-third of native bee species at risk of extinction. Overall, the new research found that more than 22% of native pollinators in North America are at an ...

Paula Wethington is a digital producer at CBS Detroit. She previously held digital content roles at NEWSnet, Gannett/USA Today network and The Monroe News in Michigan. She is a graduate of the ...

A new report co-authored by a Canadian researcher warns that more than one-fifth of pollinator species it studied in North America are at risk of extinction. Out of 759 pollinators – animals ...