Throughout history, scientists have declared many species extinct, whether due to natural disasters, habitat loss, or lack of sightings. Research suggests that around 99% of all plants and animals ...

The fossilized backbones of what appeared to be woolly mammoths have turned out to come from an entirely different and ...

In London, the Natural History Museum released its 2025 list of newly described species, formally adding 262 plants and ...

A serendipitous find in the National Museum of Natural History’s collections yielded just the second known specimen of a mysterious Cuban anole Benjamin Hack A CT scan reconstruction of USNM 5095 that ...

A genetic engineering company stunned the world by bringing the ancient dire wolf back from extinction — but it won't stop there. The Texas-based Colossal Biosciences also plans to de-extinct the ...

DNA found inside an Ice Age wolf challenges what we thought about how woolly rhinos died out.

People will be able to hear what extinct animals may have sounded like for the first time, thanks to Björk and AI software. The artist announced on social media that a new installation at Paris’ ...

The fossilization of the tadpole's "delicate structures," like its eyes and gills, allowed for a detailed analysis of the rare find. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture is filled with dead animal specimens. Specimens are like a time capsule of information of the living ecosystem, telling a story about how a species ...

Scientists say they have "restored" an extinct zebra subspecies. May 27, 2011 -- Imagine if the woolly mammoth roamed the earth once more. Japanese scientists say the elephantine beast could be cloned ...

In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the land. But for some species that evolution also involved a return trip. Dozens ...