“The extinction of the slender-billed curlew is a tragic and sobering moment for migratory bird conservation," said Amy ...

Is bringing a species back from extinction truly possible, or are we simply creating something new in its image? As headlines swirl around the highly publicized birth of three wolf pups, Curiosity ...

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 ...

The three species highlighted in the latest IUCN report — harp, hooded and bearded seals — have been moved up to a ...

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Almost 100 years after its extinction, the Tasmanian tiger may live once again. Scientists want to resurrect the striped carnivorous marsupial, officially known as a thylacine, ...

The world’s most comprehensive global inventory on extinction risk has declared the Christmas Island shrew extinct ...

Rock layers deposited before and after the major dinosaur extinction event 65 million years ago are surprisingly different.

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Dodo birds could return from extinction in just "five to seven years," according to a company that specializes in reviving extinct animals. The dodo bird went extinct less than 80 ...

For months, researchers in a laboratory in Dallas, Texas, worked in secrecy, culturing grey-wolf blood cells and altering the DNA within. The scientists then plucked nuclei from these gene-edited ...