A world where extinct animals are brought back for the betterment of both the planet and mankind may seem like science ...

An extinct snail found in a Bermuda alleyway led to biologists breeding 100,000 and releasing them back into the wild—and ...

Less than a year ago, United States company Colossal Biosciences announced it had “resurrected” the dire wolf, a ...

Colossal Biosciences aims to freeze millions of animal samples in the hope of saving endangered species, or one day resurrecting them.

Learn about Prototaxites, a bizarre group of prehistoric organisms that fall within an unknown lineage of extinct life.

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 ...

A Dallas-based company says that it has resurrected the dire wolf, an animal that has been extinct for roughly 13,000 years and is more known today for its presence on “Game of Thrones.” Colossal ...

Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient landscapes at heights of up to 8 meters. They had smooth trunk-like pillars and ...

Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have been like. As an organism that appeared to grow up through Earth’s crust in ...

A biologist at the University of Connecticut has found evidence that up to a third of all species alive today could go extinct by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions are not slowed or stopped. In his ...

"It's hard not to feel like a proud parent seeing them out there thriving and making history," London Zoo bird keeper Charlotte James said Jonny Shepherd/TNC-ZSL; TNC-ZSL The once-extinct Sihek bird ...