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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

One of the most notorious mass extinction events in modern times occurred on a hilltop in coastal Ecuador in the 1980s.

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

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

Ancient large wild-roaming animals could be seen in the UK once again as they're brought back through advancements in ...

The Scottish Highlands could soon greet some new residents: a breed of super-beefy wild cattle that have been designed to ...

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