The "Big Five" mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic Eon have long attracted significant attention from the geoscience ...

White-tailed deer have been hunted from the earliest migrations of people into North America, more than 15,000 years ago. The ...

Projects, by both Colossal and other groups, are underway around the world to help endangered species develop disease resistance or evolve to tolerate a warmer world. Other projects use gene editing ...

Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

Scientists are using fossils to help uncover how ancient life survived mass extinction, offering insights for modern ...

Douglas McIntyre and David Callaway, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, discuss the alarming prediction that human ...

Gene editing holds the potential of suppressing mosquito species that carry deadly diseases — and raises ethical questions.

Putting an end to a mass extinction sounds like an impossible task, but some researchers argue that doing so would be setting ...

A species that was hunted to local extinction has returned to its natural habitat, say scientists who witnessed the ...

"Dire wolves" created by Colossal Biosciences were pegged as "the first animals in history to be brought back from extinction ...

When a major cyclone tears through an island nation, all efforts rightly focus on saving human lives and restoring ...

They're surprisingly fuzzy. Each wing looks like a mini-masterpiece of stained-glass art, in orange, black, and white.