"Going back to what it would have been like 200 years ago." Two endangered species once thought extinct make unlikely ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the ...

The Robberg is one of southern Africa's most distinctive and widespread stone tool technologies. Robberg tools—which we found ...

The Free Beer and Hot Wings Show talks dire wolves, dodo birds, and other extinct animals we wish were still around.

A new exhibit at Shenandoah Caverns includes the replica of a skull of a now-extinct pig-like animal discovered inside the ...

The Quagga Project, initiated in 1987, embarked on a mission to resurrect the quagga’s distinctive coat pattern. By selectively breeding plains zebras, the project has made significant strides, with ...

Inside the Lab Where Scientists Are Bringing Back Extinct Animals. By D. T. Max. April 7, 2025 ... when I went to South Africa and wrote about efforts to breed back into existence the quagga, ...

It is also worth mentioning that, at the moment, there is a well-documented global race to revive extinct animals such as the quagga, the woolly mammoth, and the dodo bird. The last known quagga died ...

The Quagga is an extinct sub-species of Zebra that might come back to life. Credit: Hogyncymru – CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons. The quagga, a subspecies of the plains zebra, vanished in the late ...

Still, by 2005, the scientists had produced an animal that looked just like the extinct quagga. The project says that about 10% of the 150 animals it owns now would blend easily into a 19th ...