Dallas-based biotech firm Colossal is working to revive extinct species, including the woolly mammoth and dire wolf, through genetic engineering. Scientists say the goal is ecological restoration, not ...

Nicolás Rascován, a geneticist at the Pasteur Institute in France who was not involved with the research but did help ...

The researchers analyzed 483 mammoth remains, mostly molars but also tusks and bones. The oldest samples are 1.1 million years old and belonged to a steppe mammoth — a species that later gave rise to ...

Many people know that some animals have more than two eyes, but the variety and function of these extra eyes might surprise ...

A massive eruption 74,000 years ago shook the planet, and archaeologists are using volcanic glass to figure out how humans ...

Aside from being a delight to watch, flight in birds is regarded by many cultures as a symbol of freedom, and a source of ...

Less than 400 angle-stemmed myrtle specimens remain in the wild in Australia. Scientists are working on ways to preserve the ...

Yagi and Quinn identified scat that was likely left by a Sumatran rhinoceros in Indonesia’s Way Kambas National Park, where ...

Meet the rare trilobite beetle with an ancient armored body and learn why it fascinates scientists with its mysterious life ...

A new analysis suggests that recent extinctions have been rare, limited mostly to islands and slowing. But others argue this is all just semantics.

Cloned and genetically modified animals are jumping the lab and entering the black market, possibly forever altering our ecosystems.

By 1914, they were extinct, due in part to one of the founders of Cincinnati’s Museum of Natural History. For more than a ...