An ancient climate tipping point is revealed in new fossils dating back to Earth’s most severe extinction event, called the ...

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 million years ago. Ancient fossils recorded it all.

Like the rudists, trigoniid bivalves had lots of different species prior to the extinction event.

Leader and Life Why avoiding a sixth mass extinction is easier than it sounds Putting an end to a mass extinction sounds like an impossible task, but some researchers argue that doing so would be ...

Colossal's years-long de-extinction campaign is built on a semantic house of cards and the "illusory truth effect" — where if you repeat something enough times, people will believe it.

Cheetahs, the fastest mammals on Earth, are now in a race against extinction. It’s estimated that fewer than 7,000 exist in the wild. John Yang speaks with Laurie Marker, a woman who has already ...

With much controversy swirling around Colossal's proxy dire wolves, we spoke with the company's CEO to find out how these animals were created and what so-called de-extinction technology could ...

The extinction of Gigantopteris plants in South China and across the ancient supercontinent Gondwanaland around 252 million years ago helps bolster this argument.

(Image Credit: Yang Dinghua) Artistic reconstruction of the terrestrial ecological landscape before the end Permian mass extinction based on fossil palynomorphs, plants , and tetrapods recovered, as ...

The genome of the extinct thylacine has been nearly completely sequenced, de-extinction company Colossal has announced. It says the genome is more than 99.9 per cent complete, with just 45 gaps ...

The disappearance of species is destructive, but it’s also one of the most natural, creative forces on Earth.

This unexpected absence of such traits in the Cape lion genomes is particularly noteworthy, considering how close the skulls’ collection was to the species' extinction.