How they made the discovery — An endangered animal on the island nation of Madagascar might seem like an odd subject for a musical experiment. But the researchers decided to focus on the Indri ...

When an animal moves from the endangered species list to being officially extinct, it's undeniably a sad day. The creature has gone the way of the dinosaur and the dodo, but on occasion, scientists ...

Madagascar's singing lemurs, the indris, sing off-key in infancy and get better as adults. These large, black-and-white lemurs with buggy eyes are a critically endangered species.

Scientists have discovered dozens of animal species that were once thought to be silent, but are actually vocal communicators – including singing sea turtles and acoustic-producing living fossils.

Almost 100 years after its extinction, the Tasmanian tiger may live once again. ... Scientists plan the resurrection of an animal that’s been extinct since 1936 By Katie Hunt, CNN ...

The animals it's creating will have core genes from those ancestors, engineered for the same niche the extinct species inhabited. The woolly mammoth, for instance, is being called an Arctic elephant.

RNA is a molecule that is used to convey information from the genome to the rest of the cell about what it should do. "If you're going to resurrect an extinct animal, then you need to know where ...

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 ...