Should we bring back extinct animals? Wrong question. Why are we bringing back extinct animals when we have animals, plants, and fungi that are going extinct now, daily? By 2050, up to half of all ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

For the last 10,000 years, thousands of species have perished from the Holocene extinction event, which is still ongoing. Unfortunately, due to human activity, around 150-200 species become extinct ...

Woolly mammoths, Tasmanian tigers, not-really-dire wolves – increasingly, genomics has revealed itself as a major potential player in the quest to revive long-extinct species. But here’s a question: ...

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 ...

In April of 2025, headlines across the world announced that the dire wolf had been brought back from extinction. This 130-150 lbs wolf species, about 25% heavier than modern-day gray wolves, had not ...

And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...

It's official: the only Australian shrew is no more. The latest edition of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List, the world's most comprehensive global inventory on ...

In the world of biology, being declared extinct is usually a permanent sentence, but nature occasionally loves to prove us wrong. These incredible animals, often referred to as "Lazarus species," ...

Independent scientists say the technology, while impressive, lacks some components to be truly considered an artificial egg.