Less than a year ago, United States company Colossal Biosciences announced it had “resurrected” the dire wolf, a ...

Great auks (Pinguinus impennis) were large flightless birds that thrived on rocky islands in the North Atlantic for thousands of years. However, humans hunted them to extinction within just a few ...

The most famous example of such exquisitely preserved Cambrian fossils is the Burgess Shale of Canada.

The history of life on Earth has been marked five times by events of mass biodiversity extinction caused by extreme natural phenomena. Today, many experts warn that a Sixth Mass Extinction crisis is ...