Back in early 2023, the dodo's genome was sequenced from a DNA sample. Now the company trying to resurrect the long-extinct ...

After a devastating marine heat wave hit the Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas in 2023, the populations of two essential ...

The reptile, a tegu, had frostbite and showed signs of weakness from exposure in this week’s cold weather. It was unclear where it came from.

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.

It's Saturday! This week, in an eminently practical analysis of the Boltzmann brain conjecture, physicists put constraints on ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

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

COVINGTON, Ga. — On a 50-acre farm in Covington, animals who were once abandoned, injured, or unable to survive in the wild are finding something extraordinary: a second chance at life and sometimes a ...

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

A tiny native shrub declared extinct has made a stunning comeback in far north Queensland - and it’s all thanks to a keen-eyed citizen scientist and a smartphone app.

A plant thought extinct for 58 years has been found again in Australia after a chance upload to a citizen science mobile app.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A team of researchers dug into a permafrost-encased Siberian wolf’s stomach to get DNA details of a now-extinct woolly rhinoceros. For the first time ...