Using a new combination of computational tools to analyze ancient DNA, Yale researchers have discovered two ancient, extinct ...

Tens of thousands of years ago the world was covered by giant animals known as megafauna, many of which are now extinct. These animals that used to be way bigger include mammoths, a giant ...

My inbox started filling up with the supposedly groundbreaking news early Tuesday, breathless news articles about a biological breakthrough that will allow a long-extinct giant bird to walk the Earth ...

On February 20, 2026, 158 juvenile giant tortoises, each with DNA from the long-extinct Floreana giant tortoise species, were released on Floreana in the Galápagos archipelago. Researchers ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. We’re losing species at an alarming rate. Could freezing the genetic material of the world’s most endangered animals help save them? Biotech ...

In a welcome piece of good news for the world’s threatened wildlife, the giant panda has just been downgraded from ‘Endangered’ to ‘Vulnerable’ on the global list of species at risk of extinction, ...

Australia’s First Peoples were more early paleontologists than extinction-driving butchers, a group of scientists argue. For decades, the debate over whether the first humans to inhabit present-day ...