Dozens of Australian mammal species have declined and gone extinct since European colonisation – and introduced predators are ...

Some question whether the pups are really dire wolves, or just genetically tweaked gray wolves. But the technology could be used to help at-risk animals.

The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 million years ago. This period was preceded by the Triassic Period and ...

“Colossal has de-extincted the dire wolf,” said Colossal Biosciences CEO Ben Lamm to IFLScience. “We took a 13,000 year old ...

However, clams took over the oceans in the aftermath of the end-Permian extinction, along with oysters, snails, and slugs. Earth’s largest mass extinction eliminated a lot of marine species. But it ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

For millions of years after the end-Permian mass extinction, the same few marine survivor species show up as fossils all over the planet. A new study reveals what drove this global biological ...

A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova rate of stars closest to the sun in the past 1 billion years.

Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions that have never been completely explained, according to a theory put forward in new research.During the final stages of ...