A new study shows how the extinction of giant animals 10,000 years ago reshaped food webs, with lasting impacts on ecosystems ...

Colossal Biosciences made a record-breaking 20 edits across 14 genes in gray wolf cells by adding extinct dire wolf DNA. This was the first time ancient DNA has been used to bioengineer an extinct ...

A Dallas biotech company is working on something that sounds straight out of science fiction: bringing back extinct animals. The company just opened its new global headquarters in Dallas, where more ...

A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the fossil record is formed. They investigated how dinosaur and mammal bones are ...

Every species that's ever gone extinct has had an endling: a being that represents the last living member of its kind. While countless endlings have blinked out of existence before we got a chance to ...

Back in 1999, the BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs series spawned a new format: wildlife “documentaries” featuring long-extinct animals. I’m a big fan of this genre, and Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, made ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...