The word “de-extinction” is not just itself untrue. It seeks to diminish the inconvenient truth of the biodiversity crisis, says this expert.

For years, a mysterious fossil specimen defied categorization, until one paleontologist made a surprising discovery.

Scientists have predicted that Earth will undergo a mass extinction in 250 million years, with extreme heat and rising CO2 ...

The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation says, along the California coast, 4.5 million monarchs overwintered in the ...

The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...

Researchers link two ancient mass extinctions to nearby supernova explosions, which may have damaged Earth's atmosphere and triggered global biodiversity loss. A new study suggests that at least two o ...

Such breeding efforts are key in ensuring that species threatened with extinction do not disappear off the face of the earth.

The idea that extreme heat could one day cause a mass extinction and end the dominance of humans is not as farfetched as it ...

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.