A Texas biotech company is trying to bring mammoths and other extinct creatures back to life. The science is as intriguing as ...

Discover the latest news, features and articles about who Neanderthals were, whether they mated with modern humans and when ...

We can study animals from all over the world thanks to science, but what about those that no longer exist? The list of extinct mammals could go on for ages, but each animal has a unique story. With ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

DALLAS – The scientists at Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences, the company that brought us modern-day dire wolves, do not tire of comparisons to the fictional bioengineering firm in "Jurassic Park," ...

A search for a fish lost to extinction led to a brand-new species hiding in a South African river.

Volcanoes that have laid dormant for millions of years could revolutionize the sourcing of important rare earth elements, a new study published in Geochemical Perspectives Letters suggests.

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...

Researchers identified a new freshwater fish species in South Africa after years of genetic testing and analysis.

Body size estimates of some of Earth’s larger-than-life species may have been just that: a little bit too large for real life. That’s just one example. Size estimates of many of the planet’s extinct ...