A recent study by researchers at Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) has revealed that rapid forestation in the region ...

The term de-extinction is inaccurate, but conservation is still the best way to achieve its stated goals. We need to save the ...

In just the last several months, de-extinction — bringing back extinct species by recreating them or organisms that resemble them — has moved closer from science fiction to science fact. Colossal ...

In early modern Europe, mammoth fossils were famously interpreted as the bones of unicorns and giants before being recognized ...

Extinction is typically for good. Once a species winks out, it survives only in memory and the fossil record. When it comes to the woolly mammoth, however, that rule has now been bent. It’s been ...

Meanwhile, the thylacine, or "Tasmanian tiger," went extinct in 1936 when the last captive one died. The last wild thylacine was shot in 1930. Despite the name, the thylacine is not a tiger. It's ...

The Colossal Woolly Mouse as bred to have characteristics that could eventually be used in creating a next-generation woolly mammoth embryo to be born by a female elephant.