Tens of thousands of years ago, an enormous lizard roamed ancient Australia, and if it's anything like its descendants, we're ...

Nearly 150 years after the last giant tortoises were removed from Floreana Island in Ecuador’s Galápagos archipelago, the species made a comeback on Friday (20 February), when dozens of juvenile ...

My inbox started filling up with the supposedly groundbreaking news early Tuesday, breathless news articles about a biological breakthrough that will allow a long-extinct giant bird to walk the Earth ...

Back in 1999, the BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs series spawned a new format: wildlife “documentaries” featuring long-extinct animals. I’m a big fan of this genre, and Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, made ...

On February 20, 2026, 158 juvenile giant tortoises, each with DNA from the long-extinct Floreana giant tortoise species, were released on Floreana in the Galápagos archipelago. Researchers ...

Standing up to 3 metres tall and weighing hundreds of kilograms, Madagascar’s elephant bird was among the largest birds to ever live. Best known for laying the biggest eggs in Earth’s history, this ...

Australia’s First Peoples were more early paleontologists than extinction-driving butchers, a group of scientists argue. For decades, the debate over whether the first humans to inhabit present-day ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. We’re losing species at an alarming rate. Could freezing the genetic material of the world’s most endangered animals help save them? Biotech ...

Giant clams (Tridacna gigas), members of the family Tridacnidae and among the most striking inhabitants of tropical coral reefs, are being driven toward extinction. Over-harvesting for jewelry, the ...