Animals considered extinct for 6,000 years just re-emerged in a New Guinea rainforest ...

So many humans live on Earth, it’s hard to imagine there are animals we haven’t seen for years, decades, or even millions of ...

Scientists estimate that roughly one quarter of all plant and animal species on Earth are now at risk of extinction. Habitat ...

In April of 2025, headlines across the world announced that the dire wolf had been brought back from extinction. This 130-150 ...

Researchers say the remarkable discovery was made using fossils, photos and a misidentified museum specimen ...

Scientists have confirmed that two marsupial species, known only from ancient fossils for more than 7,000 years, are still ...

For thousands of years, scientists knew of two tiny marsupials in New Guinea only through fossils and local legend. Researchers had long considered these species extinct. However, a team recently ...

In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...

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 ...

For the first time, Colossal BioSciences unveiled its Dallas labs where it is spending millions of dollars researching how to ...

Steven Spielberg’s new Netflix documentary series has quickly climbed the streaming charts shortly after its release. The show has drawn attention from viewers exploring its large-scale depiction of ...