Unfortunately, as the world changes, some animals just can’t evolve quickly enough to make it, and they go extinct. This has ...

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Almost 100 years after its extinction, the Tasmanian tiger may live once again. Scientists want to resurrect the striped carnivorous marsupial, officially known as a thylacine, ...

On April 7, the biotechnology company Colossal Biosciences announced it had brought dire wolves back from extinction, explicitly stating it was "the rebirth of the once extinct dire wolf." Now, its ...

Exceptionally preserved RNA from a Siberian mammoth offers rare insight into gene activity, biology, and Ice Age survival ...

The woolly rhino, Coelodonta antiquitatis, would have been an impressive sight to the ancient people who painted images of ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...

“We see no possible way this could go wrong,” wrote the Jurassic World account on X, in tongue-in-cheek response to the news. Most experts USA TODAY spoke with agreed that attempts to de-extinct ...

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...

A U.S. company has taken a step aimed at bringing the dire wolf back from oblivion. Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences has announced the birth of three genetically engineered wolf pups − all with ...

Goldberg does, however, like the thought of Tasmanian tigers once again roaming the planet. "They can tear off your face," Sunny Hostin told her cohosts about the temperament of dire wolves after the ...