More than 99% of all species that have ever lived are now extinct - and today, many scientists believe we are driving a sixth mass extinction. From the baiji dolphin of China’s Yangtze River to the ...

Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences, which has produced a trio of modern-day dire wolves and the woolly mouse, seeks to bring back extinct species.

And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...

New research identifies 10,443 critically endangered species worldwide, with effective protection strategies available if funding and political will follow. More than 1,500 species, or 15% of the ...

Thousands of species on this planet go extinct every year and although extinction is completely natural, today's extinction rate is many times higher than historical extinction rates. The increase ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

For more than 50 years, scientists have been freezing living cells from endangered species. Here’s how the Frozen Zoo® is ...

Three genetically engineered wolves that may resemble extinct dire wolves are trotting, sleeping and howling in an undisclosed secure location in the U.S., according to the company that aims to bring ...

Endangered species are animals that are at risk of disappearing forever, typically animals with dangerously low population numbers, shrinking habitats and a loss of geographic range. There are animals ...