Unfortunately, as the world changes, some animals just can’t evolve quickly enough to make it, and they go extinct. This has been happening since the earliest life forms on Earth. Today, humans are a ...

Scientists have successfully sequenced the genome of the long-extinct woolly rhinoceros from an unusual place: the stomach ...

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 ...

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Almost 100 years after its extinction, the Tasmanian tiger may live once again. Scientists want to resurrect the striped carnivorous marsupial, officially known as a thylacine, ...

Inside the stomach of an ancient wolf puppy found entombed in Siberian permafrost, scientists discovered meat from a woolly ...

What makes this discovery so remarkable, is that this species was considered extinct in South Australia. The closest known ...

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