A wave of new research is forcing paleontologists to reconsider a basic question about life on Earth: when did the first mass ...

For a long time, the prevailing theory was that dinosaurs were already in decline before the Chicxulub asteroid struck Earth approximately 66 million years ago, leading to the extinction of about 70% ...

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The real big bird returns. A company that claims to have resurrected the dire wolf has unveiled plans to bring back the moa, a long-extinct bird that once towered over people. The company, Colossal ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ripple effect throughout the ecosystems it existed within. But there's a hidden ...

Gene editing may hold the key to rescuing endangered species—not just by preserving them, but by restoring their lost genetic diversity using DNA from museum specimens and related species. Scientists ...

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

Learn why diversity is important in nature from Dr. Darya Tourzani, a first-generation American woman breaking barriers in genetic science to help endangered animals through her work at @Colossal ...

A poignant recounting of the tangled and unnatural histories of extinction and empire, and how extinction is not necessarily inevitable but instead, is a political choice. One of the most famous and ...

The Nez Perce Tribe is applying this science to management of populations below or near the extinction threshold, as well as to public education and long-term science. Nez Perce Fisheries provided me ...