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 ...

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.

Researchers have wondered how an alligator-size arthropod lived more than 300 million years ago. The discovery of an intact ...

The giant fossil skull of an extinct elephant, discovered in northern India's Kashmir Valley in 2000, sheds light on a poorly ...

From Tasmania to Madagascar to New Guinea, islands make up just over five per cent of Earth’s land yet are home to 31 per cent of the world’s plant species. A new study shows that of all plants ...

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

“Both study regions contain well-preserved archaeological remains located either in heathland (coarse grasses) or under ...