Texas genetics engineering company Colossal Biosciences is teaming with filmmaker Peter Jackson and New Zealand experts to bring back another species.

For a week, the scientists bounced between reefs and ledges, diving for several marine species presumed extinct, among them R. wellingtoni.

Around 60 million years ago, a large species of Swaindelphys—extinct marsupial-like animals—roamed through modern-day Texas’ Big Bend National Park.

Science can tell us a lot about our past — namely, that it took plenty of trial and error to get modern humans. Here's what we know about some extinct human species and how they differ.

Remarkably, this species went extinct in the wild in China but survived solely due to a captive herd that was maintained in European parks, and has since been reintroduced to its native land.

Researchers uncovered a new extinct duck species, the Cuban teal, in Western Cuba’s Pinar-del-Río region. The fossil dates to the Late Pleistocene epoch.

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.

Fossil discovered in Japan’s Hyogo Prefecture sat unidentified in a museum and is now revealed to be a new species of large extinct butterfly, Tacola kamitanii.

Extinct hell ant species used specialized jaws to impale its prey A new 113-million-year-old ant fossil was discovered preserved in limestone in Brazil. Laura Baisas Apr 24, 2025 11:00 AM EDT ...

They whimper, drink from baby bottles and crawl oh so tentatively—they look like cute white puppies, not the fruit of a daring project to resuscitate an extinct species.