Coelacanth fossils like these are useful because two known coelacanth species are still alive today. They are likened to ...

A new study supports the idea that Neanderthals likely went extinct because of how they lived — in isolation. The early human ...

Scientists are exploring de-extinction to bring back species like the woolly mammoth, dodo, and Tasmanian tiger through ...

In the Karoo Basin of South Africa, an unusual tusked beast is painted on a rock wall. Archaeologists have previously ...

Extinct baleen whales, such as Aetiocetus weltoni (top; ~25 million years old) possessed teeth with enamel. Living baleen whales (bottom) lack teeth and feed on minute organisms with their brush ...

As habitats disappear, biologists are trying to find new homes for birds like the Guam kingfisher and other animals beyond ...

Sometimes this is the complete genome; other times, they may splice genes from the extinct species into the genome of a living animal. Then, in a process known as nuclear transfer, researchers ...

In fact, around 99% of all the living things that have ever existed are now extinct. Some have left behind fossils that we can study, but most have disappeared and left no trace. Most species only ...

Stuffy noses from plant allergies may have meant mammoths couldn't smell each other's pheromones, resulting in them ...

Neanderthal remains recently discovered in a cave in France support well-known theory of why the Neanderthals became extinct, researchers behind a new study say.

I am suitably impressed with what I saw, and I didn't think they'd be able to improve on MSFS 2020 much more than an ...

Genomic sequencing of nearly all living kākāpō reveals its variations in plumage color evolved to avoid the sharp eyes of ...