A world where extinct animals are brought back for the betterment of both the planet and mankind may seem like science fiction — but Colossal Biosciences has made great strides toward making the ...
Extinction is supposed to be final, yet the natural world keeps producing plot twists. Around the globe, animals written off ...
For more than 50 years, scientists have been freezing living cells from endangered species. Here’s how the Frozen Zoo® is ...
In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...
A Sierra Nevada red fox captured and collared for the first time in the southern Sierra may prove to be the key to saving the ...
An extinct snail found in a Bermuda alleyway led to biologists breeding 100,000 and releasing them back into the wild—and they're thriving.
Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...
A new study finds thousands of imperiled plants and animals meet Endangered Species Act criteria yet remain unlisted.
The Endangered Species Act, however, goes way beyond. The act also protects animals of growing rarity the average person never heard of, birds people know little about, and plants with names they ...
A new study by Virginia Tech geobiologists traces the cause of the first known mass extinction of animals to decreased global oxygen availability, leading to the loss of a majority of animals present ...
Scientists are rethinking extinction risk as studies reveal how shrinking populations disrupt social connections that many animals depend on.