"It's not just the animals." Researchers complete ambitious project with near-extinct creatures: 'Their sounds ... are ...

Scientists successfully extract RNA from a 130-year-old Tasmanian tiger, thylacine, revealing how its genes functioned before its extinction.

The history of the Earth spans about 4.5 billion years, during which countless creatures have appeared and gone extinct thanks to evolution. The only evidence we have that they existed is their ...

While many companies say they are out to change the world, Colossal Biosciences says the world does not need to be changed, it needs to be healed. The global company headquartered in Dallas announced ...

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 arrival ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NEXSTAR) — This week, a Texas-based ...

Imagine walking through a forest only to realize you're being hunted by a 40-foot snake, or on a dive in the ocean and ...

(NewsNation) — Colossal Biosciences claims to have made “the world’s first de-extinct animals,” a pair of wolves named Romulus and Remus who were created using a complete dire wolf genome. Colossal ...

Scientists can learn a lot about extinct animals by studying their footprints, bones and even teeth. But, while insightful, these artifacts don’t always paint a complete picture of an ancient creature ...

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...

“We see no possible way this could go wrong,” wrote the Jurassic World account on X, in tongue-in-cheek response to the news. Most experts USA TODAY spoke with agreed that attempts to de-extinct ...

(NEXSTAR) — This week, a Texas-based biosciences company, which aims to “de-extinct” animal species of the past (and ones that will go extinct in the future), said it managed to engineer three dire ...