Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many technical and ethical hurdles, what is the real motivation?

In just the last several months, de-extinction — bringing back extinct species by recreating them or organisms that resemble ...

A genomic analysis of Greenland’s Qimmeq dogs suggest they and their human partners arrived on the island centuries earlier than previously thought.

A University of Portsmouth student has discovered a new species of prehistoric mammal dating back 145 million years to the ...

Historians are racing to locate Great Lakes shipwrecks before a seemingly unstoppable invasive mussel destroys them and erases part of the region's heritage.

Gradually, Harmon said, the engineers got even more creative and began to include those on the endangered and extinct list, like the quagga, an animal related to the modern zebra that went extinct ...

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New Dental Research Shows What Dinosaurs Ate And Entire Food Chain Teeth can tell a life’s story, even when they’re 150 million years old. One of the new frontiers in paleontological research is ...

National ‘I found something big.’ SC student unearths prehistoric predator in Wyoming By Simone Jasper June 27, 2025 8:54 AM ...

A life-sized Ice Age icon is bringing history to life in Monticello. Meet Priscilla the Mastodon, the star of a hands-on summer series at the Jefferson County Public Library.