There's a strange assumption most of us carry around without noticing it: that scientists have basically finished cataloguing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. De-extinction starts with DNA samples from the lost species. Sometimes this is the complete genome; other times, scientists may ...

Massive volcanic eruptions on the Indian peninsula have long been proposed as an alternative cause for the demise of the dinosaurs. This phase of active volcanism took place in a period just before ...

Chicxulub asteroid type identified: a new Science Advances paper concludes the dinosaur-killing impactor was a CO chondrite — ...

Scientists across the globe are working to bring extinct species back to life. But do the facts measure up, or is this still ...

The largest ever primate Gigantopithecus blacki went extinct when other Asian great apes were thriving, and its demise has long been a mystery. A massive regional study of 22 caves in southern China ...

The term “de-extinction” often conjures images of Jurassic Park-style genetic manipulation, complete with ethical dilemmas and ecological chaos. But the reality of functional de-extinction—the ...

Last year, hiking in Morocco’s eastern Atlas Mountains, I found an ammonite, a fossil of those spiral-shape cephalopods that to many symbolize paleontology itself. The fossilization process had turned ...

Modern mammals are known for their big brains. But new analyses of mammal skulls from creatures that lived shortly after the dinosaur mass extinction show that those brains weren’t always a foregone ...

The wildlife of Mauritius, a tropical island in the Indian Ocean about 500 miles east of Madagascar, couldn’t have known that the giant shadows cast across the bay in 1598 would signal doom. A fleet ...

The first people to inhabit the Americas had a singular obsession: the biggest animals on the landscape. A July 2026 study in ...

With bright feathers that look painted on, colorful birds are typically pretty and charismatic poster species for conservation. Those same colors can also put them at a higher risk for extinction in ...