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 ...

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.

Charity Trees for Life aims to bring ancient aurochs ‘back from the dead’ in a bid to rewild the Highlands near Loch Ness.

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 ...

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

Cattle bred to resemble aurochs, large wild-roaming cows and bulls that have been extinct for 400 years, could be introduced ...

READ: American chestnuts in East Hempfield Township provide hope for nearly extinct tree This ginkgo and its brethren trees can be admired for their size, their beauty, their shade and their ...

The seed likely survived from a now-extinct population of trees that existed in the Southern Levant, a region comprising modern-day Israel, Palestine and Jordan, and is the first of its kind to be ...

We do have fossils of other extinct flowering plants, the oldest buried in 130-million-year-old sediments. These fossils give us our only tangible hints of what early flowers looked like ...