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Sahara`s wildlife suffers catastrophic collapse

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 4, 2013, 11:22

Researchers have warned that the world`s largest tropical desert, the Sahara, has suffered a catastrophic collapse of its wildlife populations.

20 mn-year-old extinct koala species discovered

Last Updated: Sunday, June 2, 2013, 20:44

Scientists have discovered an extinct species of koala bear that lived in the rainforest canopies of northern Australia about 20 million years ago.

14 closely related crocodiles existed around 5-mn-yrs ago

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 15:58

An international team of scientists have revealed that a total of 14 different crocodile species existed and at least seven of them occupied the same area at the same time about five million years ago.

Dinosaurs may be brought back to life

Last Updated: Saturday, March 16, 2013, 14:49

Even though dinosaurs have been long extinct, bringing them back to life might be possible.

Info about 65m-yr-old dinosaur teeth uncovered

Last Updated: Saturday, October 13, 2012, 09:25

In a new study, researchers from two disparate fields have discovered the teeth of 65-million-year-old dinosaurs.

`Expect one, all species of vultures extinct in Kerala`

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 11:23

Factors like reduction of habitat have contributed to the decline of vultures.

New species of horned dinosaurs discovered

Last Updated: Thursday, September 23, 2010, 12:42

Fossils of two new species of horned dinosaurs have been discovered in southern Utah.

Two thirds of freshwater crab species maybe become extinct

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 14:18

A new survey has indicated that two thirds of all species of freshwater crab maybe at risk of going extinct, with one in six species particularly vulnerable.