DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

Humans have been breeding dogs for ages. After all, our four-legged best friends are faithful companions, and they've helped ...

Due to intensive hunting and rapid urbanization, this species was practically extinct. The South American tapir is key to the ecosystem of the Atlantic Forest region, as it acts as a forest ...

Without many other mammalian competitors, those early lemurs evolved into a dizzying array of forms, everything from teacup-sized mouse lemurs to giant sloth lemurs. Many of these lemurs have ...

What type of food did extinct vertebrates eat? And how can we gain insight into the diets of these creatures? In living animals, we can simply observe what they feed on today. In the case of ...

But a new study hints that maybe we aren’t so special. A million years ago, researchers have found, an extinct species of human relatives known as Homo erectus thrived in a harsh desert ...

Learn More Colossal BioSciences has raised $200 million in a new round of funding to bring back extinct species like the woolly mammoth. Dallas- and Boston-based Colossal is making strides in the ...

Our research, published today in Science, indicates that for short-faced kangaroos, which comprise the bulk of the extinct megafauna, their diets were broad and comparable to many long-faced ...

Digital rendering of the long-extinct woolly mammoth. Courtesy Colossal Biosciences The woolly mammoth could be brought back from extinction in just three years’ time—that is, if everything ...

Each time a species goes extinct, the world around us unravels a bit. The consequences are profound, not just in those places and for those species but for all of us. These are tangible consequential ...