In April of 2025, headlines across the world announced that the dire wolf had been brought back from extinction. This 130-150 lbs wolf species, about 25% heavier than modern-day gray wolves, had not ...

So many humans live on Earth, it’s hard to imagine there are animals we haven’t seen for years, decades, or even millions of ...

Scientists estimate that roughly one quarter of all plant and animal species on Earth are now at risk of extinction. Habitat ...

Thought to have vanished forever, this mysterious creature has been rediscovered in the remote forests of Northern California ...

Jason M Ramos/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0 Prehistoric Earth was a terrifying place, with giant, fearsome creatures roaming an equally deadly world of erupting volcanoes and primordial swamps. Survival ...

The push to revive extinct animals is accelerating, but scientists disagree about whether gene-edited species count as true "de-extinction." ...

Hawaiʻi's role in a recent discovery in the forests of New Guinea is rewriting a scientific story that seemed finished thousands of years ago.

For the first time, Colossal BioSciences unveiled its Dallas labs where it is spending millions of dollars researching how to ...

Lost marsupials have been found alive in New Guinea after 6,000 years, highlighting hidden biodiversity and conservation urgency.

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...

For thousands of years, scientists knew of two tiny marsupials in New Guinea only through fossils and local legend. Researchers had long considered these species extinct. However, a team recently ...

Scientists have confirmed that two marsupial species, known only from ancient fossils for more than 7,000 years, are still ...