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.

But despite surviving the extinction, which should have placed them in a prime position to accumulate species again, their diversification sputtered.

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 ...

06-01-2025 IMPACT How white-tailed deer came back from the brink of extinction The story of white-tailed deer underscores an important fact: Humans are not inherently damaging to the environment.

The Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction killed off the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Credit: Getty Images by Mike Lyvers A biosphere in crisis There is no question that Earth is losing species fast.

In the near future, The Jurassic Games is the most popular television show in the world. Every season, 10 death row inmates play a highly advanced virtual reality game pitting them against ...

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.

The Cannes crowd got a look at Promise’s live-action and generative AI film NinjaPunk, and a new project, Extinction. NinjaPunk follows a cybernetic ninja in a neon-lit 2065 Los Angeles.

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 ...

A version of this article appears in print on , Section SR, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: Come With Me If You Want to Survive An Age of Extinction.

In an eye (right side of figure) that has undergone a prior vitrectomy, aqueous and saline have replaced the vitreous, resulting in a fluid-filled eye that does not provide additional cataract ...

For over 2 million years, dire wolves roamed present-day North America until their extinction around 10,000 B.C. On Monday, a Dallas-based bioscience firm said it had brought the species back to ...