Less than a year ago, United States company Colossal Biosciences announced it had “resurrected” the dire wolf, a ...
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A fossil trove in China provides a rare window into a mass extinction event that happened more than 500 million years ago
When considering mass extinctions, people often think of the asteroid strike that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs. But life ...
While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A ...
The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...
East-west coastlines trap marine species during warming, blocking escape routes and increasing extinction risk over millions ...
Imagine someone digs you up in 15,000 years and discovers what you had for lunch the day that you died. That’s more or less ...
A total of 44 animal, fungal, and plant species were declared extinct in 2025, according to scientific assessments by experts ...
The coastal marten is about the size of a ferret and lives in heavily wooded forests.
At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...
A shy, ferret-sized predator called the coastal marten has been quietly hanging on in the forests of southern Oregon and northern California.
Research from the 2025 Regional Mammal Red List shows that one in five mammals are threatened with extinction.
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