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

Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the ...

Scientists discovered well-preserved marine fossils in southern China, uncovering a thriving deep-water ecosystem after a ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

Colossal Biosciences says it has taken a large leap forward in bringing the extinct dodo bird back to life. On Wednesday, Sept. 17, the bioengineering company announced a scientific breakthrough in ...

For decades, scientists treated the end of Earth’s habitability as a problem for the far future, measured in several billion ...

The real big bird returns. A company that claims to have resurrected the dire wolf has unveiled plans to bring back the moa, a long-extinct bird that once towered over people. The company, Colossal ...

Backed by a National Science Foundation grant of more than $500,000, Pfeifer, the lead principal investigator, and a team of ...

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The term “de-extinction” often conjures images of Jurassic Park-style genetic manipulation, complete with ethical dilemmas and ecological chaos. But the reality of functional de-extinction—the ...

THE secrets of the woolly rhino’s demise has finally been revealed after stunned scientists found DNA in a place they weren’t ...