Many causes can contribute to the extinction of a species. Luckily, these animals once thought on the brink of extinction are making a comeback. Here's how.

The world is currently experiencing its sixth mass extinction, with potentially thousands of species lost every year.

A new study co-authored by BirdLife’s Chief Scientist Dr Stuart Butchart and published in Nature Reviews Biodiversity reveals ...

Colossal Biosciences, which aims to revive extinct species, announced it has raised an additional $200 million. Critics say de-extinction in its purest sense isn’t possible.

A 259-million-year-old fossil skull of Yinshanosaurus angustus has been found, filling a key evolutionary gap in ...

From an Australian frog that swallowed its own eggs to woolly mammoths, scientists could soon bring back long-lost species from the dead.

From dire wolves to woolly mammoths, the idea of resurrecting extinct species has captured the public imagination. Colossal Biosciences, the Dallas-based biotech company leading the charge, has ...

The recent claim that a U.S. biotechnology company resurrected the long-extinct dire wolf through genetic engineering seemed to shock the science world.. The species of canine -- about the same ...

But de-extinction remains a ... There’s No ‘Undo’ Button for Extinct Species. ... a white-coated hand jiggling a computer joystick — eventually give way to a lingering close-up of a ...

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The age of de-extinction may soon be a reality. Advances in genetic engineering and synthetic biology are making resurrecting animals once lost to this world a ...