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 ...

Although we have many problems with critically endangered species today, it used to be a lot worse. Before the times of protection and conservation animals were often poached and overhunted to the ...

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 species of mayfly previously thought to be extinct because of how rare it is has now reappeared in Thailand.

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 ...