Crocodiles' ability to eat almost anything helped their ancestors survive two mass extinctions, suggests new research. The secret to their longevity could help conservationists better protect ...

To find answers, a team of researchers studied North America’s fossil record, focusing on the 18 million years before the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period. The new analysis ...

"For the first time in human history, Colossal successfully restored a once-eradicated species through the science of de-extinction," the company states on its website. Photos and video of these ...

Many eras of Earth’s history ended in severe biodiversity loss. About 443 million years ago, marine habitats shrank during the Ordovician-Silurian Extinction, removing roughly 85% of sea life. Near ...

As soon as Colossal Biosciences declared that it brought the dire wolf back from extinction, everyone felt a sense of wonder. George R.R. Martin himself, who popularized the dire wolf as Jon Snow ...

First, scientists dug up some old bones. Fossils, actually — real direwolf teeth and skulls buried in the earth for 13,000 to 72,000 years. These bones still had tiny fragments of DNA inside ...

At first, it seemed like a typical Russian assault. Glide bombs smashed into the dugouts of Ukrainians from the 225th Separate Assault Regiment, then waves of enemy infantry advanced in small ...

De-extinction entrepreneur Ben Lamm speaks exclusively ... an astrophysicist introduced the Silurian Hypothesis, the idea that an advanced civilization may have existed on Earth before humans.

Meachen asked. "The mission of helping to preserve the species that are alive and save them from the brink of extinction is an incredibly admirable mission. That is a mission that I could get ...

One of the biggest headlines of the week: A Texas-based genetics company claims to have brought the dire wolf back from extinction — or, essentially, from the dead. Earlier this week ...