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Game of Thrones’s Dire Wolves Existed—But a New Study Suggests They Weren’t Really Wolves

Not a dire wolf.

Game of Thrones’s Dire Wolves Existed—But a New Study Suggests They Weren’t Really Wolves

Massachusetts Could Be Getting a State Dinosaur—And You Can Help Choose Which One

The Anchisaurus polyzelus is one of the dinosaur's duking it out for title of Massachusetts's state dino.

Massachusetts Could Be Getting a State Dinosaur—And You Can Help Choose Which One

This Football-Sized Fossil Egg is the First Found in Antarctica, and It May Have Belonged to a Mosasaur

An artist’s interpretation of the birth of a baby mosasaur.

This Football-Sized Fossil Egg is the First Found in Antarctica, and It May Have Belonged to a Mosasaur

Researchers Just Unearthed ‘Lost’ Footage of the Extinct Tasmanian Tiger—Watch It Here

A Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, in captivity circa 1930.

Researchers Just Unearthed ‘Lost’ Footage of the Extinct Tasmanian Tiger—Watch It Here

How Mammoth Poop Gave Us Pumpkin Pie

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10 Facts About the Extinct Passenger Pigeon

Johann Seligmann, Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain

11 Facts About the Vaquita, The World's Most Endangered Porpoise

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How Thomas Jefferson's Obsession With Mastodons Partly Fueled the Lewis and Clark Expedition

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13 Facts About the Chauvet Cave Paintings

A view taken on June 13, 2014 shows paintings of animal figures on the rock walls of the Chauvet Cave in Vallon Pont d'Arc.

For the First Time Ever, a Mammal Has Been Declared Extinct Due to Climate Change

The Whitsunday Islands in Australia's Great Barrier Reef

Is It Extinct Or Fictional?

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7 Animals That Were the Last of Their Species

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10 Tragic Stories of Extinct Animals

Drawing depicting the Great Auk, from the book 'Birds of America' by John James Audubon.

Norway's Doomsday Seed Vault Is Getting a $12.7 Million Makeover After Flood

Matthias Heyde/Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Flickr // CC BY-ND 2.0

5 Rediscovered Species That Made Headlines In 2017

Carlos Vasquez Almazan

Crocheted Costumes That Make Pigeons Look Like Extinct Species