Learn more about what fossilized teeth can tell us about the rise of mammals after the extinction of dinosaurs.

Backed by George R.R. Martin and Peter Jackson, Colossal Biosciences plans to preserve DNA from roughly 2,300 threatened and endangered U.S. species.

Amy Scott, host of the podcast "How We Survive," reports on a company that's working on de-extinction innovation to try and ...

A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the fossil record is formed. They investigated how dinosaur and mammal bones are ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

Earth's worst mass extinctions occurred when environmental change outpaced evolution, revealing a pattern spanning 450 ...

The fins of the guitarfish are sold for hundreds of dollars in Asian markets to make soup, a trade pushing them toward ...

When you think of rats, you think of relatively small rodents. These dimensions did not apply to the white-footed rabbit rat ...

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 ...

More than 2,300 plant and animal species are listed under the Endangered Species Act. A Dallas-based “de-extinction” company ...

Brandon Ballengée’s ‘Frameworks of Absence’ (2006–ongoing) in the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts booth at the 2015 Armory Show (photo by Jillian Steinhauer/Hyperallergic) (click to enlarge) The animals have ...