It’s already baffling how many incredible and strange creatures can be found on planet Earth, with there being well over 8 ...

The field of paleo-inspired robotics is opening up a new way to turn back time and studying prehistoric animals.

Are humans the only species to drive another to extinction? Tom Ruppel | Dixon, California ...

As more and more "historical" checklists are added to the platform, birds we've lost now mingle with those still hanging on.

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

“They actually have some really advanced conservation work ... Shapiro aims to use gene editing and other Colossal tech to help extinct animals’ living cousins. The company wants to fix ...

Thousands of fish, crab and dragonfly species could become extinct in the coming decades ... freshwater ecosystems are some of the most threatened on Earth. Freshwater environments are being ...

Several factors contributed to the survival of crocodiles, turtles, lizards and birds 66 million years ago, say our readers ...

Detractors also assert that scientists will only ever be able to engineer unsatisfactory imitations of extinct animals. Raising and breeding such creatures, some experts warn, could imperil living ...

"We see de-extinction as the resurrection of core traits, of core ecological interactions... and in some cases even augmenting those traits to help these animals persist in present day habitats." ...