A new analysis of this 400,000-year-old skull fills in missing branches on the elephant evolutionary tree.

Dr. Sallon and her team thought it was an extinct species known from history as Judean Balsam, but it turned out to be ...

Could a private citizen get hold of a genome and use it to bring an extinct animal back to life? —Anjali Rawal | Encinitas, ...

A team of Australian researchers has described a new species of now-extinct sawfly from an extremely well-preserved fossil ...

One of the most dramatic environmental cautionary tales from the 1980s centers on the cloud forests of the Centinela range.

Researchers believe the tree species, which is thought to be extinct today, could’ve been the source of a healing balm that’s ...

Botanists in Israel have cultivated a long-extinct plant that could be a biblical tree species by planting a 1,000-year-old ...

An international team of botanists finds no proof of extinctions in Centinela, but abundant evidence that Centinela's flora lives on in the scattered remaining fragments of coastal Ecuador's forests.

The Wilkins’ Bunting birds, a rare species living on the Nightingale Island in the South Atlantic, won’t go extinct anytime ...

What's as big as an alligator, with the body of a millipede, the head of a centipede and the eyestalks of a crab? That would ...

By Lauren Beavis via SWNS Huge wild cattle aurochs are to be brought "back from the dead" after 400 years of European ...

As XEC, the latest COVID variant takes hold, we are watching viral evolution play out on a time scale short enough to follow, ...