When one company proclaimed it had brought back the dire wolf, the response was joyous. But de-extinction remains a dangerous ...

In an East Village gallery, K Allado-McDowell has created an audiovisual tribute to species we have lost as a rehearsal for a ...

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

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 ...

These 10 incredible animals once roamed Earth’s oceans, skies, and forests—but now they’re gone forever, victims of extinction caused by nature, human impact, and time itself. [extinct animals] [lost ...

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

Rachael is a writer and digital content producer at IFLScience with a Zoology degree from the University of Southampton, UK, ...

Scientists have estimated that 99.9% of all species that ever lived on the earth are now extinct. Dire wolves themselves most likely died out at the end of the last ice age when the numbers of ...

But he says that attention-grabbing headlines about extinct species being brought back to life can act like "a giant ship" pulling "all these other projects in its wake". It is also important to ...

A coelacanth, known by some as the "dinosaur fish," was spotted in eastern Indonesia in a rare sighting of a species once ...