By Will Dunham Oct 14 (Reuters) - A US biotech company says it is making progress toward its goal of resurrecting the dodo, ...

Herugavialis is the new name for a fossil found in the same rocks that built the Great Sphinx. The reptile is a unique branch ...

A US-based biotechnology company claims it has made progress towards resurrecting the extinct dodo. Colossal Biosciences, a ...

A team working in a Siberian cave recently discovered a previously unknown bovine species that dates back to the last ice age ...

When a South African trawler captain called his museum curator friend to look over an unusual catch in 1938, neither of them ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

Colossal Biosciences brought back 20 key segments of extinct dire wolf DNA into living, breathing, wolf pups—and the tech used to do it could change conservation and paleontology for good.

In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...

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Earth’s living species are currently going extinct at a rate hundreds of times higher than the natural baseline rate, largely due to human activities. Scientists have counted about 881 animal species ...

Learn more about Herugavialis cairensis, an extinct crocodile species whose fossil came from the same rocks as the Great ...

The passenger pigeon once darkened the skies over the Midwest (they went extinct in 1914). A swarm of Rocky Mountain locusts once covered over 198,000 square miles (they went extinct in 1902). But ...