Across the globe, a small number of animal species are now so rare that only a few individuals remain in the wild. Habitat ...

Extinction has always been final — until now. Advances in genome sequencing, cloning, and genetic engineering have given scientists a real pathway to bring extinct animals back to life. This process, ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

Credit: pexels Fossil records show turtles not only survived the K–Pg extinction but actually expanded in diversity afterward. Their aquatic habits gave them shelter when land ecosystems collapsed, ...

A Dallas biotech company is working on something that sounds straight out of science fiction: bringing back extinct animals. The company just opened its new global headquarters in Dallas, where more ...

Prototaxites taiti’ was not a fungus but an extinct eukaryotic lineage, a study reveals, resolving a mystery that as perplexed experts for centuries.

Music icons Stan Bush and Lenny Macaluso created a reimagined 'Happy Birthday' anthem for Romulus and Remus Colossal Biosciences Two of Colossal Biosciences’ dire wolves marked one year since being ...

There are many cute endangered species, and sadly their charm endangers them even more, like these 25 cutest animals that are endangered.