Elephants are known for their intelligence, complex social behavior, memory and size, including their giant ears. The ears of ...

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

Although some biologists have since poured cold water on the actual science behind the dire wolf’s revival, there’s now talk ...

Dallas-based biotechnology company Colossal Biosciences announced the successful birth of three healthy dire wolf pups after 12,000 years of extinction.

The setting of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit was ancient, but did it have a prehistoric period like ...

In a scientific achievement that reads like science fiction made real, Colossal Biosciences has accomplished what many ...

The difference in trace element concentrations can potentially assist in the identification of fossil and modern ivories. Basilyan A.E., Anisimov M.A., Nikolskiy P.A. and Pitulko V.V. (2011) Wooly ...

Explore modern ecosystems that closely resemble the habitats where dinosaurs once thrived. Find out where they could live ...

The woolly mammoth is a hit, he adds. 'The natural history has garnered plenty of interest because it's art through nature.' Is there anything he'll be sad to see go? No, he says, although his wife is ...

When a 50,000-year-old bison emerged from the permafrost, Dale Guthrie didn’t just dig it up — he rewrote what we know about ...

The flaw in Colossal's plan is that the animals they focus on—Ice Age megafauna like the mammoth and dire wolf—no longer belong to any modern ecosystem. Most of the species they once ...