Here's what you need to know about the Peter Jackson-backed project to 'de-extinct' Aotearoa's long-dead giant bird.

In two new studies, researchers at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, have shed ...

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

The Big Thicket is, as its name suggests, a densely forested area. However, it is much more than just that. The Big Thicket ...

Researchers from New Zealand will try to revive extinct birds, with help from Colossal Biosciences and film-maker Sir Peter ...

The announcement that New Zealand's moa nunui ( giant moa ) is the next "de-extinction" target for Colossal Biosciences, in partnership with ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

The five-part BBC series examines how we, as Homo sapiens, went from being just one of many types of human to becoming the ...

If large creatures like elephants, giraffes and bison are allowed to thrive, they could alter habitats that allow for the ...

While Jurassic Park gives fame and fortune to the dinosaur, there's more to the prehistoric era than what meets the roar.

It’s fortunate for us there are no giant meat-eating birds, but you must admit it would be rather cool, at least if their ...

Scientists have created a near-copy of the long-extinct dire wolf. Using advanced CRISPR gene editing tech, it now looks ...