Conservationists are rethinking strategies to build climate resilience in nature as rising temperatures threaten species and ...

A team of scientists found prehistoric animal footprints that indicate how creatures behaved in Oregon as far back as 50 ...

Many huge animals went extinct surprisingly recently. When they died, their ecological role was lost with them.

Discover how crocodiles survived two mass extinctions thanks to their flexible diets and habitats, according to research.

Resurrecting extinct animals is both “exhilarating and terrifying,” says Beth Shapiro, an expert in ancient DNA and a biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Exhilarating ...

Over the past week, the media have been inundated with news of the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus)—a ...

While rare, a few birds we studied were rule-breakers. One such rule-breaker is the Eurasian spoonbill, whose highly ...

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

Most people think of crocodilians as living fossils—stubbornly unchanged, prehistoric relics that have ruled the world's ...

A tiny fossil preserved in 16 million-year-old amber revealed an extinct Caribbean species that mastered the art of ...

Under the company's definition, a de-extinct animal must share some genetic similarities to the extinct species, but does not have to be identical. Many scientists disagreed with Colossal's ...