Ten thousand years ago, the Americas teemed with mastodons, giant ground sloths, and saber-toothed cats. Within a few ...

Colossal Biosciences, the Dallas, Texas company looking to 'de-extinct' the woolly mammoth is adding an African antelope to ...

A new study shows how the loss of large animals thousands of years ago still shapes ecosystems today and may affect their ...

The Blue Buck antelope disappeared from Earth more than 200 years ago. Now, Colossal Biosciences says it can bring it back.

A new study in PNAS shows that the extinction of large mammals between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago permanently altered predator-prey networks, especially in the Americas. These simplified food webs ...

After 225 years extinct, scientists have sequenced DNA and edited cells to move the bluebuck closer to a return.

Australia is known for its unusual animal life, from koalas to kangaroos. But once upon a time, the Australian landscape had even weirder fauna, like Palorchestes azael, a marsupial with immense claws ...

Colossal Biosciences’ ’de-extinction’ programme aims to revive species such as the dire wolf, the woolly mammoth and the dodo ...

Sudden deaths : the chronology of terminal Pleistocene megafaunal extinction / Stuart Fiedel -- Estimates of Clovis-era megafaunal populations and their extinction risks / Gary Haynes -- Paleobiology ...

Preface : Lost in near time -- Big -- "This sudden dying out" -- The world before us -- The hominin diaspora -- Explaining near time extinctions : first attempts -- Paul Martin and the planet of doom ...