At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Call them dire wolves. Don’t call them dire wolves. Colossal Biosciences, the biotechnology company from Dallas, Texas, that wants to de-extinct the woolly mammoth and dodo, doesn’t care what you call ...

Scientists are working these days to bring back creatures from the past that either went extinct due to the environment or at the hands of man. One such animal that the de-extinction phenomenon has ...

A fire-bellied newt (Cynops ensicauda) on Amami Island in Japan. Previously thought to be extinct, the newt and others in its genera are still alive. (John J. Wiens/University of Arizona) (CN) — For ...

The dire wolf, a large, wolflike species that went extinct about 12,000 years ago, has been in the news after biotech company Colossal claimed to have resurrected it using cloning and gene-editing ...

Imagine the possibility of resurrecting a species long thought to be permanently erased from our planet. A massive, flightless bird that vanished from New Zealand around 600 years ago might soon take ...

Humans have wiped out hundreds of species — with many more on the brink or experiencing large declines in population. Some scientists have argued that we have entered a “sixth mass extinction” event ...

Should we bring back extinct animals? Wrong question. Why are we bringing back extinct animals when we have animals, plants, and fungi that are going extinct now, daily? By 2050, up to half of all ...

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 Services ...