Colossal Biosciences aims to freeze millions of animal samples in the hope of saving endangered species, or one day resurrecting them.

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

There’s enough gloomy wildlife news out there, so here’s a refreshing shift: some animals have pulled off impressive ...

The company that brought back the dire wolf is launching a new biovault to store the genomes of the most at-risk species.

Extinction is supposed to be final, yet the natural world keeps producing plot twists. Around the globe, animals written off ...

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 ...

The coastal marten is about the size of a ferret and lives in heavily wooded forests.

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 endangered Malayan tapirs died within a short period of each other, prompting an internal investigation. The zoo ...

While the birth is sparking joy, infant mountain gorillas are vulnerable, and twins can be twice as hard for a mother to take ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

Could Saudi Arabia rewild the near-extinct Asiatic cheetah using insights from ancient remains found in its caves?