In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference.

The plains zebra (Equus quagga) is one of the world's most recognizable animals, but there's one member of this species that no one has laid eyes on in over a century. The quagga (E. q. quagga), was a ...

“The extinction of the slender-billed curlew is a tragic and sobering moment for migratory bird conservation," said Amy ...

After his company, Colossal Biosciences, successfully revived the dire wolf from extinction, he's ready to continue to change ...

According to Prof Pask, one of the key goals of Colossal Biosciences in bringing back extinct species would be to reintroduce ...

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, Australia was still home to enigmatic megafauna—large land animals such as giant marsupial ...

The world’s most comprehensive global inventory on extinction risk has declared the Christmas Island shrew extinct ...

On April 7, the biotechnology company Colossal Biosciences announced it had brought dire wolves back from extinction, explicitly stating it was "the rebirth of the once extinct dire wolf." Now, its ...

The "de-extinction" company Colossal Biosciences promises to fulfill that dream, at least for extinct animals like woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius), dodos (Raphus cucullatus), and Tasmanian ...

In Florida, two key coral species responsible for building coral reefs have been killed off because of extreme ocean heat, a ...