Two marsupial species vanished from the fossil record 6,000 years ago, then turned up alive in a rainforest that local communities had been quietly protecting for generations.

A new study from Princeton University, the Smithsonian Institute, the Mpala Research Centre and many partner institutions has now documented the interconnection between the largest animals in the ...

For centuries, Japanese folklore warned travelers about the kawauso lurking along quiet riverbanks at night. Locals feared and loved these mysterious river otters as shape-shifting yōkai, ranking them ...

Crocodiles are often described as animals that barely changed after the age of dinosaurs, though that impression tends to ...

A company hatched live chicks from an artificial eggshell. They are hoping to bring back the extinct Moa. (Colossal ...

Yoshua Bengio, the Turing Award-winning AI researcher, has warned that hyperintelligent machines could develop autonomous “preservation goals” and pose an existential threat to humanity within a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When an animal moves from the endangered species list to being officially extinct, it's undeniably a sad day. The creature has ...

The Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, was officially declared extinct in 1936, but its disappearance has never been fully understood. Despite its status, reported sightings have continued for decades, ...

Colossal Biosciences’ bluebuck de-extinction project could also help the world’s dozens of currently endangered antelope species.

It’s been 226 years since humans last beheld a bluebuck—and we don’t know what we’ve been missing. The bluebuck was a species of antelope, but an especially elegant one—a trim, fleet beast, measuring ...

Colossal Biosciences, the company that produced a trio of modern-day dire wolves, is expanding to a half-dozen species that it wants to bring back. The latest extinct animal the so-called ...