Paul Scofield, a project adviser and senior curator of natural history at the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand, ...

A species of huge, flightless bird that once inhabited New Zealand disappeared around 600 years ago, shortly after human ...

The famed Lord of the Rings director has donated his money and his bones to make a legend come to life with Colossal ...

Scientists have got their hands on the oldest animal proteins yet, extracted from 18-million-year-old fossilized mammal teeth in East Africa, pushing the record back by an astonishing 14 to 15 million ...

“Some of those iconic species that feature in our tribal mythology, our storytelling, are very near and dear to us,” says ...

Unlike body fossils such as bones and teeth, these trace fossils indicate the daily activities of long-extinct animals, according to the scientists. To create 3D models of the tracks, ...

Neanderthals went extinct. Our species, Homo sapiens, has been around for at least 200,000 years. That's a long time, but like all animals on Earth we are at risk of becoming extinct.

Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

Colossal Biosciences, a company that aims to “de-extinct” animals, announced Monday its scientists successfully genetically engineered three wolves to resemble the long-extinct dire wolf. The ...

On April 7, Colossal Biosciences announced what they called the “world’s first de-extinction,” the births of three dire wolves, extinct animals that lived during the ice ages of the Pleistocene.

The finished animals, if born, may resemble their extinct counterparts in outward appearance and some behavior—but they will not be genetically identical. Rather, they will be hybrids, mosaics ...

Even though there are 8 billion people on Earth today, a catastrophe could send that number much lower within a few decades.