MELBOURNE, Australia -- Almost 100 years after its extinction, the Tasmanian tiger may live once again. Scientists want to resurrect the striped carnivorous marsupial, officially known as a thylacine, ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

“We see no possible way this could go wrong,” wrote the Jurassic World account on X, in tongue-in-cheek response to the news. Most experts USA TODAY spoke with agreed that attempts to de-extinct ...

Their names are Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi, and they’re the first dire wolves to walk the Earth in over 10,000 years — or so one biotech company and a flurry of recent headlines say. On April 7, ...

In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the land. But for some species that evolution also involved a return trip. Dozens ...

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 ...

On a lawn inside the Bronx Zoo, rows of headstones display multiple animal species, making for an eerie display during the month of October. An Instagram post from an account known as Inside History ...

The endangered species list may change under the Trump administration. After biotechnology and genetic engineering company Colossal Biosciences said it successfully created three dire wolf puppies ...

More than 47,000 species are currently threatened with extinction. Just last year, the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List reported five newly extinct species and five others moved ...