Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

Researchers have uncovered three long-extinct creatures preserved within fossilised tree resin that once belonged to the ...

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 in the Czech Republic are celebrating the birth of four rare Barbary lion cubs — three females and one male — marking a significant boost for a subspecies that has been extinct in the wild ...

"From the frozen tundra of Siberia to the cutting-edge genetics labs of Harvard University, a group of young scientists--under the guidance of Dr. George Church, the most brilliant geneticist of our ...

The history of the Earth spans about 4.5 billion years, during which countless creatures have appeared and gone extinct thanks to evolution. The only evidence we have that they existed is their ...

Colossal Biosciences is working on bringing back a long-dormant animal, and it has found a partner to help. The genetics company is teaming up with "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson to ...