An extinct snail found in a Bermuda alleyway led to biologists breeding 100,000 and releasing them back into the wild—and they're thriving.

Extinction is supposed to be final, yet the natural world keeps producing plot twists. Around the globe, animals written off ...

These animals were thought to have vanished forever, only to make a surprising return. These remarkable animals are living proof that it's possible to reverse the damage we've done to the planet. They ...

Africa is a continent full of animals known as charismatic megafauna - that is, awe inducing beasties of large size, ...

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 ...

From dire wolves to woolly mammoths, the idea of resurrecting extinct species has captured the public imagination. Colossal Biosciences, the Dallas-based biotech company leading the charge, has made ...

Should we bring back extinct animals? Wrong question. Why are we bringing back extinct animals when we have animals, plants, and fungi that are going extinct now, daily? By 2050, up to half of all ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A "de-extinction" company says it has revived the long-eradicated dire wolf species using a new gene-editing technology. The US ...

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...

As the Trump administration slashes funding for health, energy and climate research, there’s one science the administration is promoting: de-extinction. Earlier this month, a biotechnology company ...