The bluebuck vanished from the southern tip of Africa around 1800, hunted to extinction only 34 years after European ...

Extinct animals coming back: Scientists are pursuing de-extinction, aiming to bring back species like the woolly mammoth and ...

Until about 200 years ago, a species known as the bluebuck antelope roamed the open grasslands of South Africa. It got its ...

The Cape's bluebuck antelope joins the mammoth, dodo and dire wolf on Colossal Biosciences' de-extinction list.

Dire wolves became extinct towards the end of the last ice age, about 12,000 years ago. They became well known among Game of ...

Most living organisms inherit two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent, but plants frequently undergo whole-genome ...

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A long-dead predator is now thriving after being brought back from extinction, a Texas-based biotechnology firm has said.

Homo sapiens’ interconnected networks gave them a survival edge over more isolated Neanderthals amid environmental changes.

When an asteroid as big as Mount Everest struck Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs and roughly a third of life on the planet. But many plants survived the devastation. In ...

Despite saying he planned to come down soon on Saturday evening, Reichstadter remained on top of the bridge as of 4:35 p.m.

Scientists say genetically engineered dire wolves brought back from extinction are now ready to breed, reigniting debate over ...