Extreme heat waves, driven by climate change, are resulting in mass animal die-offs, disrupting reproduction, and pushing ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem ...

When an animal moves from the endangered species list to being officially extinct, it's undeniably a sad day. The creature has gone the way of the dinosaur and the dodo, but on occasion ...

Sixty-six million years ago, Earth’s balance shifted in a single strike. The asteroid impact set off firestorms, blocked out ...

Scientists plan resurrection of Tasmanian tiger, animal that's been extinct since 1936 Scientists want to resurrect the carnivorous marsupial, officially known as a thylacine, which used to roam ...

Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based company, is launching Colossal Australia, which aims to revive extinct species, such as ...

The term de-extinction is inaccurate, but conservation is still the best way to achieve its stated goals. We need to save the habitats of threatened animals while we can.

Thousands of species on this planet go extinct every year and although extinction is completely natural, today's extinction ...

A few months later, Colossal Biosciences, the Texas-based company that produced the creatures, declared: “The first de-extinct animals are here.” Of 20 edits made to the animals’ genomes ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The ...

Dallas-based biotech company sets its "de-extinction" sights on big bird with claws Dallas-based biotech company announces plans to revive extinct 10-foot-tall bird with claws ...