Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are ...

Extinction has always been final — until now. Advances in genome sequencing, cloning, and genetic engineering have given scientists a real pathway to bring extinct animals back to life. This process, ...

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 ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A ...

Should we bring back extinct animals? Wrong question. Why are we bringing back extinct animals when we have animals, plants, and fungi that are going extinct now, daily? By 2050, up to half of all ...

The Andean condor has been threatened with extinction for decades. At one time, the condor was considered extinct in ...

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 ...

Once upon a time, the likes of Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg imagined a world where scientists on the cutting edge of genetic research pieced together bits of DNA, both ancient and modern, to ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...

This proposal has drawn criticism from legal scholars and conservationists, who argue that habitat modification poses a major ...

What makes this discovery so remarkable, is that this species was considered extinct in South Australia. The closest known ...