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.

The Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird,Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs forcompany. 66 million years ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last year was a big year for Fairbanks Museum, highlighted by major moments in the museum’s 136-year history, but in 2025, the museum will focus on the smaller things, both literally and ...

Mainland yellow-eyed penguin could become extinct within two decades, says the Department of Conservation (DOC), with the number of known nests dropping by 80 percent over the past decade and a half.

Scepticism that climate change is real has “almost entirely disappeared” from the opinion pages of British national newspapers in the past ten years, according to new research. However ...

TOKYO, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Tucked away in a corner of central Tokyo, the Extinct Media Museum lives up to its name. From Betacam videotapes to floppy disks and vintage Sony devices, the museum is a ...

The native toki of Sado went extinct over four decades ago. But through a community-driven and internationally supported initiative, they have returned for an encore. While toki once thrived on ...