The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...

Experts have tried to understand for several decades how long multiple extinct species inhabited the Earth. This helps ...

They were the ancient Australian megafauna—huge animals that roamed the continent during the Pleistocene epoch. In boneyards across the continent, scientists have found the fossils of a giant ...

The animals’ extinction might not have happened ... Brazilian researchers used to adopt the North American view that megafauna were wiped out by overhunting. “Following that dominant view ...

That the tiger is renowned as India’s national animal surely aided such endeavours. Second, megafauna declines can disrupt entire ecosystems. Large animals such as tigers and elephants have key ...

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

Colossal Biosciences achieved an unprecedented feat by deciphering the genetic code of the dire wolf through ancient DNA samples, enabling them to rewrite the genetic makeup of a common gray wolf. The ...

The BC Megafauna Project looks at ice age animals found in British Columbia. Our aim is to find and document as many of them as possible, from both public and private collections. We want to know when ...

After the extinction of the dinosaurs during the Cretaceous mass extinction (the fifth mass extinction) about 66 million years ago, a new era of “megafauna” emerged. These were large animals ...

And absence of other megafauna in kill sites doesn't mean they ... view that people could have been so active as to hunt every animal of any body size, in every context, in every possible ...

Australia was once home to a group of extraordinary animals known as Megafauna. What became of them has been debated for over a century, but now a team of scientists are re-opening this paleolithic ...