Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based biotech company, made headlines this April after falsely claiming to resurrect 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 ...

Long before modern wildlife, Earth was home to colossal creatures that were truly larger than life. From towering mammals to gigantic reptiles, these forgotten giants ruled the land, skies, and seas ...

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was ...

Scientists studied more than 700 ancient Chinese poems that mention the Yangtze finless porpoise to determine its population ...

I like many of you have seen the headlines claiming dire wolves have been raised from the dead. I have also, unlike many of ...

The combination of these methods offered a comprehensive age assessment, placing the mammoth in a crucial period of North American prehistory when many megafauna species were facing extinction ...

"De-extinction" takes center stage as environmentalists express dismay over erosion of the Endangered Species Act ...

Cover Images via AP; Alamy Scientists have successfully mapped the genome of the Tasmanian tiger, an extinct marsupial native to Australia that was last seen in its natural habitat in 1936.

Cheetahs, the fastest mammals on Earth, are now in a race against extinction. It’s estimated that fewer than 7,000 exist in the wild. John Yang speaks with Laurie Marker, a woman who has already ...