Every year, species disappear forever. But sometimes, nature delivers an astonishing surprise. Across remote islands, deep oceans, mountain forests, and hidden valleys, scientists have rediscovered ...

Back in 1999, the BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs series spawned a new format: wildlife “documentaries” featuring long-extinct animals. I’m a big fan of this genre, and Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, made ...

Scientists continue to uncover surprising evolutionary links between living animals and species that disappeared long ago. The video highlights three modern creatures that share unusually close ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Critically endangered animals like the vaquita, Javan rhinoceros, saola, Amur leopard, Sumatran orangutan, and northern white ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

Brandon Ballengée’s ‘Frameworks of Absence’ (2006–ongoing) in the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts booth at the 2015 Armory Show (photo by Jillian Steinhauer/Hyperallergic) (click to enlarge) The animals have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here are the wildest extinct prehistoric creatures that aren't dinosaurs. It's hard to imagine how some of these animals even ...

Colossal Biosciences made a record-breaking 20 edits across 14 genes in gray wolf cells by adding extinct dire wolf DNA. This was the first time ancient DNA has been used to bioengineer an extinct ...

Two marsupial species thought long extinct, until now known only from fossils, were found alive in New Guinea through a collaboration of scientists, indigenous communities and citizen scientists.

On the second floor of a sleek but unremarkable office building just west of downtown Dallas, Texas, an animatronic white wolf stands atop a promontory, slowly surveying the vast entry area for ...