Colossal Biosciences aims to freeze millions of animal samples in the hope of saving endangered species, or one day resurrecting them.

Extinction is supposed to be final, yet the natural world keeps producing plot twists. Around the globe, animals written off ...

The company that brought back the dire wolf is launching a new biovault to store the genomes of the most at-risk species.

There’s enough gloomy wildlife news out there, so here’s a refreshing shift: some animals have pulled off impressive ...

Should we bring back extinct animals? Wrong question. Why are we bringing back extinct animals when we have animals, plants, and fungi that are going extinct now, daily? By 2050, up to half of all ...

The coastal marten is about the size of a ferret and lives in heavily wooded forests.

The endangered Malayan tapirs died within a short period of each other, prompting an internal investigation. The zoo ...

While the birth is sparking joy, infant mountain gorillas are vulnerable, and twins can be twice as hard for a mother to take ...

Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are nowhere to be found. From human activity to climate change, new animals ...

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...

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 ...