Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There’s an important concept in evolutionary biology called ...

Less than a year ago, United States company Colossal Biosciences announced it had “resurrected” the dire wolf, a ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

Ross Stone/Unsplash Less than a year ago, United States company Colossal Biosciences announced it had "resurrected" the dire ...

Chester Zoo, in the UK, has announced that it has received scientific confirmation that an “extinct” snail has been saved thanks to the efforts of an international team of conservationists. The ...

For over 2 million years, dire wolves roamed present-day North America until their extinction around 10,000 B.C. On Monday, a Dallas-based bioscience firm said it had brought the species back to life ...

Researchers have uncovered three long-extinct creatures preserved within fossilised tree resin that once belonged to the ...