Could extinction itself become a thing of the past? Advances in biotechnology, including ancient DNA sequencing, genome ...

Jurassic Park injected the idea of reviving an extinct species into the popular imagination, but is this lofty dream ...

With the current technology, you have a good shot at being able to bring back an extinct animal or being able to create mor ...

Little is known about the rodent, aside from the fact that it frequents murky waterways. Once confirmed, the new find could ...

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 wildlife rescue organization was so local, and its efforts so unpublicized, that scientists had long considered the animal ...

We can study animals from all over the world thanks to science, but what about those that no longer exist? The list of extinct mammals could go on for ages, but each animal has a unique story. With ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There’s an important concept in evolutionary biology called ...

Brandon Ballengée’s ‘Frameworks of Absence’ (2006–ongoing) in the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts booth at the 2015 Armory Show (photo by Jillian Steinhauer/Hyperallergic) (click to enlarge) The animals have ...

For the first time, 62 of young serpents born at the San Francisco Zoo were released at specific sites across San Mateo ...

Endangered species protections for New England wildlife are under attack again. The Senate is advancing a bill which aims to ...