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

A plan to genetically engineer a version of the dodo, a giant flightless bird that disappeared 400 years ago and became the poster child for extinction, has made some headway, ...

Four centuries after the bird's extinction coined the phrase, a Texan biotech company is experimenting on cells from one of ...

Many people around the world are obsessed with finding animals that are presumed extinct. Although this may sound impossible, animal rediscoveries happen more often than you might think. Some ...

Deepak Chopra explains how artificial intelligence should be viewed as "augmented intelligence" that expands human awareness rather than threatens it.

The chance rediscovery of the Pini-Beraliya is a welcome piece of good news that shows the importance of staying up to date ...

New Zealand is planning to eradicate millions of invasive animals that prey on the country's rare birds. The goal may not be ...

With its latest accomplishments, Colossal Biosciences expects to functionally restore the dodo within the next 5 to 7 years.

Scientists are one step closer to resurrecting the dodo after creating gene-edited chickens that could lay eggs carrying the ...

Over the past few hundred years there have been many famous animal extinctions. Most recent animal extinctions are all down ...

"This marks an important milestone in ongoing conservation efforts within Matusadona National Park," spokesperson Tinashe ...

Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have determined the genetic lineage of a now extinct plant population from ...