In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth ...
Once common across the grasslands west of Melbourne, the Victorian grassland earless dragon was thought to be extinct for 54 ...
Lazarus taxa, where a species is declared extinct but later learned to be alive and kicking, is the reason people think the ...
In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...
Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...
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 ...
While conservation efforts have bolstered the populations of many species considered to be threatened in 2025, many animal and plant species continue to dwindle in number, with some even going extinct ...
Colossal Biosciences made a record-breaking 20 edits across 14 genes in gray wolf cells by adding extinct dire wolf DNA. This was the first time ancient DNA has been used to bioengineer an extinct ...
Scientists tracked bird population in Canberra’s botanic gardens and found climate impacts starting to affect them ...