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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

'De-Extinction' is a new documentary from Curiosity Stream that reveals how scientists brought back the dire wolf from extinction, and what animals they are working to revive now, including the ...

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 ...

An update to the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species has declared 31 animal and plant species extinct.

The dire wolf is back. Or is it? Colossal defends its science amid critics No question, the dire wolves born by Colossal Biosciences are super-cute and growing into stately animals. But some ...

Scientists say the Trump administration’s embrace of de-extinction won’t help endangered species like the Great Lakes gray wolf.