Despite multiple attempts to resurrect woolly mammoths, the ancient animal species currently remains very much extinct. Their last known population—a group isolated by rising sea levels on Wrangel Island off the Siberian coast—managed to survive 6,000 years before finally disappearing roughly 10,000 years ago. But unlike the dinosaurs, what specifically caused the Wrangel mammoths to […]
Earth has endured multiple mass extinctions during its existence—the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE), for example, decimated the planet’s marine ecosystems. But according to a new study from international researchers at Caltech, George Mason University, the University of Naples, and elsewhere, the T-OAE’s destructive fallout over 300,000-to-500,00 years may pale in comparison to what humanity […]
Colossal Biosciences is genetically engineering hybrids of woolly mammoths, dodos, and thylacines in a giant de-extinction experiment.
Fossils of feathery-looking sea creatures that formed prehistoric animal communities give clues to the ‘Cambrian explosion’ of evolution.
In a new book, science writer and author Riley Black explores how the last days of the dinosaurs set the stage for the age of mammals.
In springtime in the Northern Hemisphere, dinosaurs and other animals would have been especially vulnerable to the cataclysm.
Fossils from the Hell Creek Formation in North Dakota shed clues to when exactly the asteroid that led to the dinosaur extinction hit Earth.
Invasive species have an appetite for destruction. But so do humans. Why not eat the weeds and critters to control them?
Through 3D imaging and analysis, biologists determined that the biggest known eagle both hunted and scavenged.
The ivory-billed woodpecker and the scioto madtom are just two of 23 species declared extinct by federal officials.
