"For many years, the scientific community considered it an extinct species in Mexico." Scientists make unexpected discovery ...

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 ...

The dodo bird was pushed to extinction by deforestation, overhunting and the destruction of their nests by animals that the Dutch brought to the island. Now, Colossal wants to bring them back ...

When one company proclaimed it had brought back the dire wolf, the response was joyous. But de-extinction remains a dangerous ...

For decades, an "extremely rare" fossil sat unidentified in Japan's Museum of Unique Insect Fossils. Discovered in 1988 in ...

Scientists have shocked the world by bringing back the extinct dire wolf species which ... comparative genomics approach really do cause an animal to have a woolly coat and a golden coat and ...

Around 99% of living things that have ever existed are now extinct – meaning for animals, that they have stopped breeding, died and no longer exist. But sometimes, dedicated conservationists ...

The Indonesian coelacanth, a fish once thought to be extinct for 70 million years, was discovered alive in greater numbers ...

Named for the crone-bird hybrid of Greek mythology, the appearance of this large and majestic raptor is worthy of the ...

A biotech company says it has bred three animals with key physical features of the dire wolf — a species that has been extinct for more than 12,000 years. Colossal Biosciences says it used novel ...

This is often cited as the first example of de-extinction. However, the only preserved tissue was from one female animal, meaning it could not have been used to bring back a viable population.