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Now, a team in Brazil has uncovered a 113-million-year-old hell ant that represents the oldest hell ant specimen known to ...

In the case of the thylacine, the first step is sequencing the extinct animal's DNA – the genetic ... was such an important marsupial every major museum wanted one in their collection, so ...

The recent claim the long extinct dire wolf was resurrected made headlines around the world. But bioethicists and ecologists ...

These were genetically modified then DNA was extracted from fossils and museum specimens of the extinct species. Researchers then unravelled this genetic data to compare the pre-historic genome to ...

With that in mind, here are a few extinct species we hope scientists never revive ... according to the Western Australian Museum. They weighed up to 7 tons and scientists note that fossils of other ...

Scientists say the Trump administration’s embrace of de-extinction won’t help endangered species like the Great Lakes gray ...

A team of scientists found prehistoric animal footprints that indicate how creatures behaved in Oregon as far back as 50 ...

Utah researchers think they now know how existing crocodiles and alligators were able to survive the last two extinctions.