Sturgeon are among the oldest fish on Earth, yet many present-day sturgeon species are at threat of extinction, with 17 of 27 species listed as “critically endangered.” Sporting an armor of five rows ...

Ancient DNA shows an endangered dove species endemic to Cuba is more genetically distinct than the dodo was before it died out.

DNA recovered from archaeological remains of ancient humans who lived in what is now Tunisia and northeastern Algeria reveals ...

Current processing techniques for harvesting DNA from osseous elements are destructive, and success rates vary widely. When skeletal elements are homogenized into a fine powder, endogenous DNA may be ...

For centuries, historians and scientists have speculated about the physical appearance of our ancestors. What color were ...

Colossal Biosciences plans to revive the woolly mammoth using gene editing. But is de-extinction a breakthrough or a costly ...

New study challenges the theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of part of ...

Exclusive: Colossal CEO Ben Lamm considers the similarities between their efforts to bring back the woolly mammoth with Michael Crichton’s worst fears in Jurassic Park.

A critically endangered new species of killifish sampled from an ancient forest in Kenya in 2017 and 2018 has now been described. Nothobranchius sylvaticus, from the Latin meaning 'pertaining to the ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

After consultation with his colleague Robert Morley, he realises with amazement that, unlike the dinosaurs, the relatives of ...