In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

Guest Opinion. The Dire Wolf is said to have become extinct about 10,000 years ago. It was a true North American carnivore, ...

It turns out it does matter what you eat, especially to crocodylians — crocodiles, alligators and gharials — a species ...

In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass death. Today’s crocodylians are the surviving members of a lineage called ...

The American genetic engineering firm Colossal Biosciences recently announced to much fanfare it had "de-extincted" the dire ...

The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...

The claimed ‘de-extinction’ of dire wolves appears to offer hope. But, is it what it seems, and should we focus on saving the ...

Many species of megafauna became extinct near the time dire wolves became extinct. Phillips said the lack of prey is likely a factor in the extinction of dire wolves. Climate change and possibly ...

The fluffy white canines — Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi — unveiled this week by Colossal Biosciences are closer to something ...

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

A genetic engineering company has stunned the world by bringing the ancient dire wolf back from extinction, but it won't stop ...

Pioneers in the science of "de-extinction," an American company has announced the births of three pups whose genes resemble ...