Genetic diversity matters for wildlife – and for the livestock on which we depend. Yet breed after breed is disappearing into extinction.

Some animals that were believed to be extinct have stunned the world by making an unexpected return in 2024! From ancient ...

What the dodo symbolizes has changed over time. It has been, variously, a parable, a joke and a warning. When we see it as an ...

This was an alarming start to the idea of gene de-extinction. As we know from movies like The Thing, digging up frozen ...

Marine biologist Fernando Trujillo has spent a lifetime working with the endangered creatures, which offer a window into the ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

Two rare animals in Florida died within days of each other from vehicle collisions in nearly back-to-back blows for the ...

It flaps its ears and squirts water from a waving trunk, but this elephant is a life-size mechanical replica rolled out to ...

Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery.

A 62-million-year-old mammal fossil reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, plant-based diet, and evolutionary ties to primates ...

The hyaenodonts that survived then showed how adaptable and resilient the animals were, Borths said. A few million years later, however, they went extinct and were replaced by the relatives of ...