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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Researchers say the remarkable discovery was made using fossils, photos and a misidentified museum specimen ...

In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...

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 ...