When the ancestors of terrestrial life on Earth crawled or slithered out of the sea, they formed the starting point for many ...

Scientists find the DNA of a 300,000-year-old horse in Schöningen, driven to extinction by hunting, next to a wooden spear ...

In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the ...

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, ...

An extinct snake has slithered its way out of obscurity over four decades after its discovery. The newly described species of reptile, Paradoxophidion richardoweni, is offering new clues in the search ...

Scientists recovered authentic RNA from woolly mammoths preserved in Siberian permafrost, something researchers said had ...

Researchers in a recent breakthrough have extracted world’s oldest RNA from a woolly mammoth in an effort to de-extinct lost ...

Why do some ancient animals become fossils while others disappear without a trace? A new study from the University of Lausanne, published in Nature Communications, reveals that part of the answer lies ...

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 ...

We've seen a US company bring the wolf species back from extinction after more than 10,000 years, and now the next animal on ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived long ago. But the oldest DNA obtained so far dates back ...