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

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.

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

A mass extinction event that was said to have occurred as recently as 40 years ago never actually happened, according to a ...

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

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

Standing up to 30 metres tall, Madagascar's giant baobab trees have towered over the island for thousands of years – but as ...

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

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 ...

Ckunsa, an indigenous language in Chile, was declared dead 70 years ago. But groups in northern Chile are successfuly ...

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

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