What happened to all the megafauna? From moas to mammoths, many large animals went extinct between 50 and 10,000 years ago.

Ecologists in Australia flipped through thousands of photos taken on trail cameras at a national park. They were looking for ...

An animal like the thylacine that died out almost a hundred years ago simply couldn't be brought back this way. But it could be an option for recently extinct species. In 2003, researchers ...

There are so many animals that have gone extinct through the ages that we’re choosing to focus just on creatures that went extinct relatively recently: from 1800 onward. So even though we’ll ...

Just in the past decade, two mammal species have gone extinct ... Sartore’s new book, Vanishing, published by National Geographic Books. Joel Sartore has been photographing animals for his ...

Her new sound installation blends the noises of endangered and extinct animals with her own voice, reading text she co-wrote alongside editor and photographer Aleph Molinari. "It is an emergency.

Shapiro's new book examines the capacity of science to bring back extinct animals. UC Santa Cruz Humans have long tinkered with life—what’s the most fascinating example? Domestication ...

The creation of three "dire wolf" pups has raised hopes that it may be possible to resurrect extinct animals. But some ...

Fifteen million years ago, now-extinct species of dolphins ... Based on one such spinal skeleton of the megalodon, a new study published in the journal Palaeontologia Electronica reports that ...