Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

The first known cases of accidental choking have been discovered, dating back 150 million years, when some opportunistic fish ...

The announcement that New Zealand's moa nunui (giant moa) is the next "de-extinction" target for Colossal Biosciences, in ...

Standing more than three metres (12ft) high, the South Island giant moa is regarded as the tallest bird to have ever walked ...

The South Island giant moa could be the next species that biotech company Colossal Biosciences "brings back" from extinction ...

One such conservation effort is underway in England. Scientists are attempting to reintroduce New Forest cicadas, also known ...

Europe recently downgraded the protected status of wolves, sparking concern among conservationists who warn this may undo ...

"They advance as if they were on the front of a battle zone," Oriol Lapiedra, a researcher studying the snakes, told El País.

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