Frankie, a male, southern white rhino standing 7-foot tall and weighing 5,200 pounds, is the newest rhino at Potawatomi Zoo.

The country is seeing an increase in human-wildlife conflict as the number of megafauna, including rhinos and tigers, grows. But there are efforts to tackle the problem around Chitwan national park th ...

Some nights, when I should be doing something sensible or useful, I end up looking at pictures of blue whales and feeling very, very tiny. We talk a lot about the megafauna that are gone – mammoths, ...

For millions of years, a variety of large herbivores, or megafauna, influenced terrestrial ecosystems. Among many others, these included elephants in Europe, giant wombats in Australia, and ground ...

Large introduced herbivores such as feral horses and camels are often seen as “invasive” species which damage native plants. My colleagues and I published new research in Science testing this ...

The debate has raged for decades: Was it humans or climate change that led to the extinction of many species of large mammals, birds, and reptiles that have disappeared from Earth over the past 50,000 ...