The Earth has gone through many major events over the course of hundreds of millions of years. Some of the most significant ...

Since the first sharks emerged in the world’s oceans nearly half a billion years ago, the world has gone through five major mass extinction events. Each one took a considerable fraction of all the ...

In another influential study, the macroevolutionary transition following the Late Ordovician mass extinction was examined, highlighting a shift in the dominance of certain crinoid clades and a ...

Fossil tracks from 545 million years ago suggest complex life forms were already crawling around before the Cambrian ...

The announcement that New Zealand's moa nunui (giant moa) is the next "de-extinction" target for Colossal Biosciences, in partnership with Canterbury Museum, the Ngāi Tahu Research Center and ...

Earnings Results ServiceNow CEO warns of ‘extinction’ for some legacy software as stock pops on earnings The enterprise-software company beats expectations with its latest earnings and boosts ...

However its impact on lesser used languages, such as the growing Cornish language needs calling out as it could be an extinction event.

Rainy, damp weather along the eastern United States in summer 2025 has one upside: Fireflies love it. "Fireflies and their prey (snails, slugs, worms) need moisture, so years with high rainfall ...

When we think of de-extinction, we think of Jurassic Park, but could this be happening in real life?

BETH SHAPIRO, COLOSSAL BIOSCIENCES: The process of de-extinction is that we extract DNA from ancient bones, and we sequence that DNA and assemble ancient genomes.

Peter Jackson Wants to Bring This 400-Pound Flightless Bird Back From Extinction Along with Colossal Biosciences, the filmmaker is joining an indigenous-centered partnership to resurrect the 12 ...

A species of huge, flightless bird that once inhabited New Zealand disappeared around 600 years ago, shortly after human settlers first arrived on the country’s two main islands. Now, a Texas ...