When one company proclaimed it had brought back the dire wolf, the response was joyous. But de-extinction remains a dangerous ...

For decades, an "extremely rare" fossil sat unidentified in Japan's Museum of Unique Insect Fossils. Discovered in 1988 in ...

To breathless media coverage, a company called Colossal Biosciences now claims to have produced three genetically engineered ...

An asteroid at the end of the Cretaceous Period ended the dinosaurs, but earlier smaller extinctions dramatically set the ...

Earlier this year, to breathless media coverage, a company called Colossal Biosciences claimed to have produced three genetically engineered pups of the long-extinct dire wolf. Scientific criticism ...

The species was named Tacola kamitanii in honor of Kiyoshi Kamitani, the discoverer of the fossil. This naming pays tribute ...

"Nature's Swiss army knife." Officials celebrate as species nearly hunted to extinction makes historic comeback: 'The things ...

Scientists have successfully mapped the genome of the Tasmanian tiger, an extinct marsupial native to Australia that was last ...

A grasshopper thought extinct since 1980 was found alive in Cape Verde. Scientists call it a living fossil and urge ...

Scientists are investigating the possibility of introducing mammoth-like species as part of a revolutionary approach to combat climate change.

The New York Restoration Project has launched an effort to plant 1,000 thriving American chestnut trees that are a hybrid ...