Scientists are working on some amazing projects to bring extinct animals back to life by 2028! The woolly mammoth, a giant furry elephant-like creature that roamed the Ice Age, is one of the top ...

Once upon a time, the likes of Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg imagined a world where scientists on the cutting edge of genetic research pieced together bits of DNA, both ancient and modern, to ...

A plan to genetically engineer a version of the dodo, a giant flightless bird that disappeared 400 years ago and became the poster child for extinction, has made some headway, according to Texas-based ...

De-extinction, as it’s been termed, hasn’t happened in over 3 billion years of life on Earth, so it will be an epic event if and when it happens. It can potentially be done using eggs and sperm that ...

The Texas entrepreneur working to bring back the woolly mammoth has added a new species to his revival list: the dodo. Recreating this flightless bird, a symbol of human-caused extinction, is a chance ...

In New Zealand, conservationists are looking at new ways to protect the country's native bird species, some of which were believed to be extinct for decades As they attempt to eradicate invasive ...

Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, they’re now formally categorized as extinct on the IUCN Red List, considered the ...

Millions of years of isolation have shaped Australia's extraordinary mammal fauna into species unlike anywhere else in the ...