A quarter of a billion years ago, long before dinosaurs or mammals evolved, the predator Dinogorgon, whose skull is shown here, hunted floodplains in the heart of today's South Africa. In less than a ...

Once-threatened koala populations in parts of Australia are showing surprising signs of genomic recovery, according to a study that establishes a new way to assess the health of a population. It ...

The Nez Perce Tribe is applying this science to management of populations below or near the extinction threshold, as well as to public education and long-term science. Nez Perce Fisheries provided me ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chinook salmon migrate up the Columbia River in Oregon Chinook salmon migrate up the Columbia River in Oregon. (Dave Alan/Getty ...

SILVER SPRING, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Is bringing a species back from extinction truly possible, or are we simply creating something new in its image? As headlines swirl around the highly publicized ...

In April of 2025, headlines across the world announced that the dire wolf had been brought back from extinction. This 130-150 ...

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

Learn why diversity is important in nature from Dr. Darya Tourzani, a first-generation American woman breaking barriers in genetic science to help endangered animals through her work at @Colossal ...

For a long time, the prevailing theory was that dinosaurs were already in decline before the Chicxulub asteroid struck Earth approximately 66 million years ago, leading to the extinction of about 70% ...