Romulus and Remus, two snow-white canids with powerful shoulders and wide jaws, look like something out of myth. In a way, ...

Startup Colossal Biosciences has edited the DNA of a gray wolf to produce what it says is a de-extincted animal. Does that ...

Scientists have made a leap in genetic engineering by pushing elephant cells into an embryonic-like state. This marks a major ...

New research painted a more accurate picture of the megafauna that spread widely around the Americas before they went extinct ...

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Scientists have teamed up with cave divers on a perilous mission – to reach exceptional fossils and learn more about ...

Though the reason behind the disappearance of the Ice Age’s iconic megafauna remains a hotly debated topic, scientists frequently cite climate change, and human hunting may have also played a role.

Since the last major ice age, populations of large animals have dwindled. These declines have directly affected climate ...

Until the unlikely resurrection of woolly mammoths through cloning and related technologies, fossilized bones provide some of the clearest pictures of the ice age megafauna we have (unless we’re ...