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

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

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

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

A new study indicates the giant reptile Deinosuchus is not a close relative of modern alligators, as scientists previously ...

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. Out of 759 pollinators — animals ...

As human beings have grown wealthier, they have come to care about environmental stewardship and gained the resources to act on their newfound compassion for wildlife.

Researchers examined the fossil records of the site where the now extinct marsupial megafauna Protemnodon ... in our fossil fauna," he said. "In America, they've known what we're just finding ...

marking a significant milestone in de-extinction efforts and reshaping our relationship with species loss. Dire wolves once roamed North America, preying on megafauna like bison and ground sloths.

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. Out of 759 pollinators — animals critical ...