"What's most important is the next steps that we take in the future." Experts note 'there's still a possibility' an extinct ...

The study also found that six other seasonal killifish species also exist in the same habitat, making the region the most ...

Animals and plants aren't automatically taken off most national and state extinct species list in Australia if they are rediscovered, leaving them without protection as threatened species.

In an astonishing discovery, scientists have uncovered a clam species believed to have vanished over 40,000 years ago. Known ...

The frozen remains of a juvenile woolly mammoth named Yuka preserved details about the animal’s last moments alive ...

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Scientists examine the mummified remains of a 39,000-year-old mammoth nicknamed Yuka, whose tissue yielded ancient RNA in a ...

Scientists find the DNA of a 300,000-year-old horse in Schöningen, driven to extinction by hunting, next to a wooden spear that killed it.

The Pit No. 12 where the gibbon was found is located at the southeastern side of Empress Dowager Xia's tomb area, which lies ...

A 40,000-year-old juvenile woolly mammoth named Yuka is not only remarkable because she was uncovered nearly intact or her ...