A two-foot-long tubular animal that roams the West is officially back from extinction. Originally thought to be extinct, a dog in Meeteetse, Wyoming, "rediscovered" America's only native ferret in ...

(Gary Braasch / Corbis) When Polynesians arrived at the uninhabited Hawaiian Islands thousands of years ago, they found an array of colorful tree snails, each less than an inch in length, across the ...

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A Texas-based genetics company says the long-extinct dire wolf is back. Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences announced that it has re-birthed the dire wolf, a canine species that previously roamed North ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. A massive breakthrough was announced this week by the ...

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What was the dire wolf? Like many species lost before living memory and known only from remains, the 1854 discovery of a jawbone from this extinct North American predator was more suggestion than ...

There are two fossil species of Plesiogulo in North America: Plesiogulo marshalli, to which most of the fossil material is herein referred, and P. lindsayi, new species. Both species are restricted to ...