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 ...

This video reveals the unexpected modern animals most closely related to legendary extinct creatures. It uncovers surprising ...

In the last ten years, at least 15 species have officially checked out, never to be seen again. It's ironic to think how these creatures once roamed the planet with us, but now, they're just part of ...

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, ...

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

New research shows RNA is preserved for longer than scientists had realized. This is the oldest RNA ever profiled.

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 ...

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