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.

These unexpected patterns of extinction and survival may offer lessons for the future. The fossil record shows us that biodiversity has definite breaking points, usually during a perfect storm of ...

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 ...

During the end-Permian mass extinction ––also called the Great Dying–80 percent of marine species were wiped out. While most species on land did not fare much better, the scope of ...

The scientists did detect SOME extinction in the area during that time period, but at 21 percent it was far lower than at much of the rest of the planet. Because the plant oasis persisted, it ...

The extinction of the Neanderthals is one of the most intriguing mysteries in paleoanthropology, with researchers speculating ...

Life De-extinction company claims it has nearly complete thylacine genome Colossal, a US firm that is aiming to revive lost species such as the woolly mammoth, says it now has a near-complete ...

Extinction’s beneficent side puts us in an awkward, even discomforting position. The world, after all, is on the upslope of another significant extinction event.