Scientists are on the verge of bringing extinct animals like the woolly mammoth, Pyrenean ibex, and Tasmanian tiger back to ...

Mammoths were thought to be driven to extinction by humans, but it was something else entirely that is happening again today that threatens us all.

What would success be to this writer? Would it be encouraging the tangled brush, weedy meadows and haphazard trails, hoping for woolly mammoth habitat to reappear? Much better, as I see it ...

Woolly mammoths: Facts about these extinct, shaggy beasts that once roamed the Arctic —Woolly mammoths weren't always shaggy. Here's when they evolved some of their trademark features.

The last known Tasmanian tiger—the top predator of the southern Australian island—died in 1936. But the U.S.-based bioscience company Colossal wants to bring back the species from extinction.

Without the top predator intact to maintain order and keep the foof chain in check, its former habitat has buckled ... are planning to resurrect the woolly mammoth by 2028. Courtesy of Colossal ...

The last-known thylacine died in captivity in a Hobart zoo in 1936 with colonial hunting, disease and habitat change blamed for its demise. In a University of Melbourne collaboration ...

A Soviet zoologist with a passion for long-extinct mammals set out to reinvigorate the landscape of the Caucasus in the 20th ...

Woolly mammoths are close relatives of modern elephants ... The Japanese river otter went extinct in 2012 due to hunting, habitat destruction, and pollution. ©KKPCW / CC BY-SA 4.0 – Original ...

Environmental DNA harvested from the ocean, land and air can help scientists monitor wildlife. The challenge is figuring out how to interpret this eDNA.

The findings provide a detailed blueprint as researchers work toward bringing the extinct species back to life and reintroducing it to its native habitat in Australia. Scientists may be a few ...