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Researchers have found an armoured fossil skink 1,000 times heavier than the ones in your garden. Its closest living relative is the shingleback lizard.

In the dinosaur era, flying reptiles soared in the skies of what is now Australia – but we have barely any fossil records of them.

Nimbadon lived 15 million years ago, in forests with flesh-eating kangaroos and tree-climbing crocodiles. Our first look inside their fossilised bones has revealed how these giants grew.

Cultivated meat, like the lab-grown mammoth meatball, just might be the food of the future.

The longer these species spend in captivity the more they risk becoming inbred or losing the genetic diversity that helps resist diseases and other threats.

Experts unearthed around 24,000-year-old skeletons of 7,000 extinct animal species on the coasts of Chile. Read more here.

Two conservation scholars break down what de-extinction looks like – and the debate over whether it could do any good.

Can we bring extinct animals back? The ambitious plan to resurrect the dodo is underway. However, it is a practice that must be carefully analyzed from bioethics

Global warming has brought many species to the verge of extinction in recent decades. Some species managed to repopulate. Here are 5 of the extinct animals, if not endangered species, that have managed to come back to life, and in strong numbers.

"Part of its root was sticking up a bit and I pulled it up," a diver said. "Later on the boat, I realized it was bite marks."