In the late 1990s in the Ajimu region of Japan's Oita Prefecture, researchers discovered three fossilized vertebrae belonging ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Only a few months after announcing the controversial “de-extinction” of the dire wolf, Colossal Biosciences has now set its sights on restoring the ...

Standing up to 3 metres tall and weighing hundreds of kilograms, Madagascar’s elephant bird was among the largest birds to ...

A biotech company that claims to have brought dire wolves back from extinction has announced plans to resurrect giant extinct birds called moa. However, experts say that dire wolves were never truly ...

Giant clams (Tridacna gigas), members of the family Tridacnidae and among the most striking inhabitants of tropical coral reefs, are being driven toward extinction. Over-harvesting for jewelry, the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. We’re losing species at an alarming rate. Could freezing the genetic material of the world’s most endangered animals help save them? Biotech ...

Back in 1999, the BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs series spawned a new format: wildlife “documentaries” featuring long-extinct animals. I’m a big fan of this genre, and Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, made ...

As the population of giant pandas in the wild increases, China's national icon has been downgraded from “endangered” to “vulnerable” on the Red List maintained by the International Union for ...

Australia’s First Peoples were more early paleontologists than extinction-driving butchers, a group of scientists argue. For decades, the debate over whether the first humans to inhabit present-day ...