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Scientists are hoping to gain additional genetic information from the mammoth teeth and ultimately know more about the now-extinct giant mammals.

Conservationist whose creative thinking saved 770,000 acres of threatened habitat from damaging development

These incredible animals will never roam Earth again. These are just some of the animals that have gone extinct in the past 150 years.

Of the 1,090 stuffed animals found, 405 belonged to specimens protected by the CITES convention on wildlife protection.

MELBOURNE, March 15 ― Australian scientists recently received funding for an important project: reviving the Tasmanian tiger, an animal species officially considered extinct since 1982. And this is not the first such experiment being carried out around the world. Could we one day expect to see...

Meet Stegosaur, the oldest discovered new dinosaur species in Asia - The stegosaur is one of the earliest unearthed anywhere in the world. The study was published in the journal, Journal of Verterbrate Paleontology.

Evolutionary adaptations have excited researchers that have discovered a connection between mammals today and predators from about 300 million years ago.

The paradise parrot was rediscovered by Cyril Jerrard, a Queensland grazier, in December 1921. But its return was fleeting.

The extinction of large grassland grazers, such as woolly mammoths, ancient horses, and giant bison, led to more fires on our planet. This occurred between 50,000 and 6,000 years ago when there were many more Earthly fires because the grazers were no longer around. The extinction of these animals had a huge effect on the... Read more »

Why resurrecting this extinct species is a colossal waste of resources, and what we should do instead.