Ever since "Jurassic Park," people have been talking about bringing extinct animals back from the grave. While it is not possible to revive animals that died out hundreds of millions of years ago, it ...

The word "dodo" is synonymous with extinct animals. In fact, if you asked people to name an extinct animal who wasn't a ...

The bandicoot was extinct in the wild in 1991, but the marsupial has now been “bred for survival” and will be released across ...

Back in 1999, the BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs series spawned a new format: wildlife “documentaries” featuring long-extinct animals. I’m a big fan of this genre, and Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, made ...

The majority of organisms that have ever existed and now extinct. Most animals have been wiped out my mass extinction events ...

Colossal Biosciences made a record-breaking 20 edits across 14 genes in gray wolf cells by adding extinct dire wolf DNA. This was the first time ancient DNA has been used to bioengineer an extinct ...

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 ...

While conservation efforts have bolstered the populations of many species considered to be threatened in 2025, many animal and plant species continue to dwindle in number, with some even going extinct ...

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 ...