On a fenced U.S. preserve, a pair of heavy‑boned canids now stalk and play that, until recently, existed only in tar pits and textbooks. Colossal Biosciences says these living pups carry the signature ...

Extinction is supposed to be final, yet the natural world keeps producing plot twists. Around the globe, animals written off ...

Colossal Biosciences aims to freeze millions of animal samples in the hope of saving endangered species, or one day ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

Back in early 2023, the dodo's genome was sequenced from a DNA sample. Now the company trying to resurrect the long-extinct ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

Dire wolves were massive and highly intelligent animals nearly the size of a small horse, capable of ripping a man’s arm off as easily as a dog kills a rat. They lived in cold regions in a place ...

Discover 5 massive bears larger than a grizzly. In earths history there has been plenty of massive bears to learn about.