Among the fossil finds were bilateral worm-like animals that may have anchored themselves to the seafloor, early comb jellies ...

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonized almost all environments on Earth—from hostile ...

Jason M Ramos/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0 Prehistoric Earth was a terrifying place, with giant, fearsome creatures roaming an equally deadly world of erupting volcanoes and primordial swamps. Survival ...

Did Earth’s major diversification event really happen in one sudden explosion? Our fossil discovery suggests not.

On a lawn inside the Bronx Zoo, rows of headstones display multiple animal species, making for an eerie display during the month of October. An Instagram post from an account known as Inside History ...

Colossal Biosciences made a record-breaking 20 edits across 14 genes in gray wolf cells by adding extinct dire wolf DNA. This was the first time ancient DNA has been used to bioengineer an extinct ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...

There’s something intriguing, even frightening, about the image of an ancient horned serpent roaming across the land. Thanks to some suggestive fossils and legends of old, talk of such a creature ...

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 ...

In April of 2025, headlines across the world announced that the dire wolf had been brought back from extinction. This 130-150 lbs wolf species, about 25% heavier than modern-day gray wolves, had not ...