Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

Dodo was first discovered by sailors in 1598, and they also helped lead to its extinction, often hunting for this bird because they saw it as invasive species. They were easy prey because they didn’t ...

Colossal Biosciences, co-founded by Dallas resident Ben Lamm, announces it has raised $225 million since 2021 for 'genetic rescue' missions. The Texas entrepreneur working to bring back the woolly ...

For the vast majority of human existence, extinction has been a one-way process. If a species has gone extinct, the species is forever lost to the world, until now. Thanks to advances in genetics, ...

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted natural mammal communities as profoundly as the Ice Age extinctions. Fossil ...