Cuddly koala bears are adored by people all over the world, even by those who have never seen one in real life. But these ...

The US company Colossal Biosciences has announced plans to bring back the Moa - an extinct giant bird that once called New Zealand home. It’s got the backing of a famous Kiwi filmmaker. But not ...

Turtles may look slow and quiet, but they’re actually some of the oldest animals on Earth. They’ve been around for over 200 ...

The Oceanic country has been inhabited by numerous strange creatures, some of them already extinct, such as the moa, a ...

Soft tissues are preserved along one side of the metre-long flipper where it’s believed to have been pressed into the sediments of the seafloor shortly after the animal’s death. This provided an ...

Woolly mammoths are at the forefront of controversial de-extinction efforts, writes Rebecca Woods in a commentary.

Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many ...

Colossal has previously worked on species like the dire wolf. This time, the challenge is different. Birds lay eggs, which ...

The world is currently experiencing its sixth mass extinction, with potentially thousands of species lost every year.

A species of huge, flightless bird that once inhabited New Zealand disappeared around 600 years ago, shortly after human settlers first arrived on the country’s two main islands. Now, a Texas ...

When an animal moves from the endangered species list to being officially extinct, it's undeniably a sad day. The creature has gone the way of the dinosaur and the dodo, but on occasion ...

From prehistoric predators to forgotten giants, some extinct species still have what it takes.