The recent announcement of the resurrection of the dire wolf generated considerable global media attention and widespread scientific criticism. But beyond the research questions, there are other ...

The humerus, pulled from a well-preserved ancient layer of sediment, belonged to a new extinct species of duck named Amazonetta cubensis, or the Cuban teal, according to a May 9 study published in the ...

Published in the journal Cell, a new study suggests a captive breeding program could save the saola from extinction—if they’re still out there. Scientists Revived Brain Tissue from Cryo-Sleep ...

Screengrab from @Sdzsafaripark on Instagram A zoo in California welcomed a “wobbly newborn” deer whose species is extinct in the wild, zookeepers said. The Pere David’s deer is the first in ...

(Photo courtesy: San Diego Zoo) Père David’s Deer, which are native to China, were facing extinction by the 19 th century due to floods, war and hunting, although a few were kept on the ...

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That said, the authors acknowledge that some historical references of the river porpoise could be confused with the now-extinct baiji, a freshwater dolphin that lived in the Yangtze. But this ...

Julie Meachen, an expert in Ice Age megafauna, skirts a dirt ledge called “the Saddle” deep inside a remarkable hollow in northern Wyoming known as Natural Trap Cave. She stops to observe Megan ...

Standing as a testament to an ancient world, the Panhandle area is filled with playas, the dried-up beds of Ice Age lakes where megafauna once quenched their massive thirsts, and if TxDOT's ...

Their extinction, likely due to a combination of climate change and human hunting, left a significant ecological void that remains unfilled to this day. The absence of these megafauna has had ...

One newly described extinct species, Pterodroma zinorum, existed on São Miguel in the Azores. It was smaller than any living Atlantic Pterodroma species and probably nested in coastal cliffs.