The dire wolf went extinct around 10,000 years ago. The recent claim that a U.S. biotechnology company resurrected the long-extinct dire wolf through genetic engineering seemed to shock the ...

There’s No ‘Undo’ Button for Extinct Species When one company proclaimed it had brought back the dire wolf, the response was joyous. But de-extinction remains a dangerous fantasy.

Biologists have confirmed the existence of a 200-million-year-old species of egg-laying mammal that has been assumed to be extinct. Suspected footage of Zaglossus attenboroughi -- the long-beaked ...

Cloning long-extinct or even currently endangered species has caveats and is not a straightforward or simple process. There is a high rate of fetal loss, as well as mortality soon after birth.

Endangered species such as sage grouse, gray wolves, and grizzly bears are inconvenient obstacles to “unleashing” fossil fuel extraction everywhere across the public lands of the West.

An update to the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species has declared 31 animal and plant species extinct. That total includes the lost shark, listed as ...

An Artist Honors Extinct Plants and Animals at New York’s Swiss Institute In an East Village gallery, K Allado-McDowell has created an audiovisual tribute to species we have lost as a rehearsal ...

Finding a species long thought to be extinct is a dream of many naturalists and ecologists. One family in Sri Lanka got to have this amazing experience.