A comet explosion may explain mass extinctions 13,000 years ago, linking the Clovis people's vanishing and mammoth die-off to ...

Understanding the Earth’s previous mass extinctions may be the key to saving ourselves from the next one. Could we be on the verge of the sixth mass extinction? To better understand what’s to come for ...

The firm has grown “primordial germ cells” (early embryonic cells) from Nicobar pigeons, the dodo’s closest living relative, ...

What's lurking in your freezer: a lasagna or deep-frozen pizza? Conservationists rely on freezers too—but they run much ...

Colossal Biosciences opens global HQ with 100 scientists focused on "de-extinction," using CRISPR to revive species like the ...

Norway's engineers had created a novel invention to help Arctic seals: floating "ice pods" that give the animals somewhere to "rest, raise pups, and survive" amid a warming planet and melting sea ice.

The Aquarium of the Pacific's vice president of animal care, Nate Jaros, exclusively tells PEOPLE more about the facility's giant Pacific octopus, Ghost, who “continues to rest comfortably" in her ...

Researchers have described a whole new family of extinct crocodyliforms based on the fossilized remains of a single teenage ...