Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a ...

Scientists discovered well-preserved marine fossils in southern China, uncovering a thriving deep-water ecosystem after a ...

Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the ...

Extinction has always been final — until now. Advances in genome sequencing, cloning, and genetic engineering have given ...

For decades, scientists treated the end of Earth’s habitability as a problem for the far future, measured in several billion ...

Fossils reveal dinosaurs were flourishing in diverse ecosystems right up until the asteroid impact ended their reign.

About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

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The last meal eaten by a wolf cub before its demise, some 14,400 years ago, has yielded new insight into how the woolly ...

The real big bird returns. A company that claims to have resurrected the dire wolf has unveiled plans to bring back the moa, a long-extinct bird that once towered over people. The company, Colossal ...

The term “de-extinction” often conjures images of Jurassic Park-style genetic manipulation, complete with ethical dilemmas and ecological chaos. But the reality of functional de-extinction—the ...