For years, TikTok users have shared dozens of videos claiming that the U.S. "got caught hiding the last dodo bird." Some of ...

There are so many animals that have gone extinct through the ages that we’re choosing to focus just on creatures that went ...

Scientists created a version of the extinct dire wolf. But we should be directing our resources to preventing extinction in the first place.

Flightless birds, like the dodo bird of the small Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, have had a rough go of it over the past several hundred years – with many species having gone extinct. Here’s the ...

The Texas-based Colossal Biosciences also plans to de-extinct the woolly mammoth, the dodo bird and the Tasmanian tiger. The project aims to restore species that have been eradicated at least in ...

The creation of three "dire wolf" pups has raised hopes that it may be possible to resurrect extinct animals. But some ...

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