The science of de-extinction does not exist, but Colossal Bioscience’s “artificial egg” is an interesting technical feat

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. De-extinction starts with DNA samples from the lost species. Sometimes this is the ...

Conservation genomics is a bold new tool for protecting life on earth, but it will take all of us to slow the extinction crisis.

The last male northern white rhino died in 2018. Now only Najin and Fatu remain, two females living under 24-hour armed guard in Kenya. Their survival now depends on science. Najin is 35 years old and Fatu is 24 years old.

Botanist Steve Perlman risks dangerous climbs and remote expeditions across Hawaii to protect some of the world’s rarest endangered plant species.

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 Earth was struck by a meteorite, 66 million years ago.

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 explores a species on the brink of extinction between ...