Fifty thousand years ago, North America was home to towering giants. Mammoths roamed the tundra, saber-toothed cats hunted in ...

Dire wolves — or really, wolves with traits like the extinct species — are back. But New York has plenty of its own ...

The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...

Colossal Bioscience says it has “de-extincted” the dire wolf, but other scientists disagree and say more important ...

Australia’s giant Protemnodon kangaroos didn’t die out everywhere at the same time. Instead, extinction proceeded one habitat ...

A new report co-authored by a Canadian researcher warns that more than one-fifth of pollinator species it studied in North America are at risk of extinction. Enjoy the latest local, national and ...

But the dire wolf is an actual real-world predator, which went extinct about 13,000 years ago after roaming North America for thousands ... during the Quaternary megafauna extinction, a period ...