Studying how ancient animals lived and why they died out can offer important insight to protecting species today.

The findings, published in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution, show that woolly rhinos remained "genetically healthy" ...

Scientists have made a world-first discovery after extracting woolly rhinoceros DNA from the stomach of a wolf dating back to ...

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 ...

A fascinating discovery in South Africa has sparked renewed debate about whether ancient myths were inspired by real, now-extinct animals. Archaeologists have uncovered a 200-year-old rock painting ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s greatest extinction. Tens of thousands of fossils reveal fully aquatic ...

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 ...

Scientists have long treated mass extinctions as events locked deep in the fossil record. That framing now feels less distant ...

Opinion | "Dire wolves" created by Colossal Biosciences were pegged as "the first animals in history to be brought back from extinction." But that all depends on your definition of de-extinction — and ...

A new analysis of 14,669 threatened species of plants and animals found in Europe reveals that about one fifth face the risk of extinction, and that agricultural land-use change poses a significant ...

A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.