The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals.

Bringing extinct animals back sounds like science fiction, but it’s becoming real science. Companies like Colossal want to revive species like the dodo and woolly mammoth using cloning and ...

Over the past few hundred years there have been many famous animal extinctions. Most recent animal extinctions are all down to humans with global warming and habitat destruction being the main factors ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

A version of the dodo bird (Raphus cucullatus) could make a return someday soon. Colossal Biosciences announced this week several milestones in its quest to bring the extinct species back to life. On ...

The slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) has been officially declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). This is the first-ever recorded global bird ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. the tarsier is a very peculiar small animal.in fact it is one of the smallest known primates, no larger than an adult men's hand.© ...

The late 1900s were a time of rapid change for our planet, and unfortunately, some of its most unique inhabitants did not survive. Between the 1980s and 1990s, several animal species disappeared ...