Between 66 million and 215 million years ago, long-necked reptiles called plesiosaurs inhabited the world’s oceans. By ...

The field of paleo-inspired robotics is opening up a new way to turn back time and studying prehistoric animals.

The specimen Rapp caught was an adult female he estimated to be about an inch to an inch and a half long. According to the ...

For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur ...

As more and more "historical" checklists are added to the platform, birds we've lost now mingle with those still hanging on.

Scientists identified the tiny species of cat from a fossilized jawbone, which could date back as far as 300,000 years ago.

Advocates say resurrecting extinct animals is attracting new investors with deep pockets to conservation. The scientific field pushes the boundaries of biotechnology in a way that will make it ...

A growing group of scientists is trying to bring back extinct animals, an idea that is drawing closer than ever because of recent advances in gene editing. Shapiro, one of the world’s leading ...

The Wollemi Pine’s bark looks like bubbling chocolate—but its real secret? It’s a 200-million-year-old survivor from the age ...

Colossal is a firm focused on bioscience and the de-extinction of species like the woolly mammoth and dodo bird.

Researchers at Utrecht University studied the motives that play a role in selecting extinct animals for ‘de-extinction’.

Despite making up more than 70% of the Earth's surface, seas and oceans are largely unknown to science. It is estimated that we do not know even half of what happens in the aquatic ...