The skeletons of over 100 prehistoric rhinos have been found at Ashfall Fossil Beds in northeast Nebraska, but why were there ...

Now, a team in Brazil has uncovered a 113-million-year-old hell ant that represents the oldest hell ant specimen known to ...

Scientists revisited tracks made by a shorebird, a lizard, a cat-like predator and some sort of large herbivore at what is ...

A once-extinct bird has laid eggs in the wild for the first time in nearly 40 years. After returning to the wild in 2024, the ...

"It was a human-driven extinction – European settlers came to Australia and brutally obliterated this animal," says Andrew Pask, a geneticist at the University of Melbourne. Pask is leading a ...

Resurrecting extinct animals is both “exhilarating and terrifying,” says Beth Shapiro, an expert in ancient DNA and a biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Exhilarating ...

Australia’s giant Protemnodon kangaroos didn’t die out everywhere at the same time. Instead, extinction proceeded one habitat ...

The tough decision of which species to save from extinction Roughly 1 million species of wildlife face extinction worldwide, according to a recent United Nations report. Ecologist and author ...

This is often cited as the first example of de-extinction. However, the only preserved tissue was from one female animal, meaning it could not have been used to bring back a viable population.

Three genetically engineered wolves that may resemble extinct dire wolves are trotting, sleeping and howling in an undisclosed secure location in the U.S., according to the company that aims to ...