Resurrecting extinct animals is both “exhilarating and terrifying ... If you mean 100-percent mammoth, with all mammoth genes and behaviors, that will never happen. What’s the biggest ...

Australia lost all its large animals, including a giant wombat-relative ... they decimated the populations of many marsupials, driving some extinct. Lesser bilbies, desert bandicoots and broad ...

The Père David’s Deer is making a comeback, as a fawn was just born in Southern California. The male fawn was born at the San ...

For decades, an "extremely rare" fossil sat unidentified in Japan's Museum of Unique Insect Fossils. Discovered in 1988 in ...

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

Each time a species goes extinct, the world around us unravels a bit. The consequences are profound, not just in those places and for those species but for all of us. These are tangible consequential ...

The concept of bringing extinct animals back to life, once confined to the realm of science fiction like the Jurassic Park films, is rapidly becoming a tangible reality. Scientists are employing ...

Many huge animals went extinct surprisingly recently. When they died, their ecological role was lost with them.