(NEXSTAR) — This week, a Texas-based biosciences company, which aims to “de-extinct” animal species ... the largest predator in North America, according to the Western Australian Museum.

potentially continuing to coexist with mammals and birds today. The study analysed nearly 18 million years of fossil evidence which included records of around 8,000 fossils from North America ...

Gary Ward, London Zoo’s curator of birds ... have been extinct in the wild since 1972, surviving only thanks to carefully managed breeding programmes across Europe and North America.

The scientists studied records of around 8,000 fossils from North America dating to the Campanian ... and their surviving descendants: birds." ...

The pups exhibit distinctive features of the extinct creature ... the Pleistocene Epoch and was a formidable predator in North America. But unlike the modern gray wolf, the dire wolf was larger ...

Scientists cannot even say why the Carolina parakeet went extinct ... birds. Editor's Note: In “The Lost Parrot,” we mistakenly characterized the Carolina parakeet as “North America ...

But the dire wolf is an actual real-world predator, which went extinct about 13,000 years ago after roaming North America for thousands of years before that, alongside saber tooth tigers and ...

Other scientists argue that it will never be possible to restore an extinct species whose habitat ... "Once There Were Billions: Vanished Birds of North America," produced by the Smithsonian ...

To find answers, a team of researchers studied North America’s fossil record ... and their surviving descendants: birds.” The study helped to highlight what biases may affect scientists ...