The idea that extreme heat could one day cause a mass extinction and end the dominance of humans is not as farfetched as it ...

De-extinction entrepreneur Ben Lamm speaks exclusively with Metro.co.uk's Jen Mills.

Meet Romulus and Remus, who Colossal Biosciences claim to be the world's first de-extinct animals.

In fact, trees didn’t even exist during the Silurian period ... What caused its extinction remains unclear. It might have been outcompeted by other land organisms as ecosystems evolved.

Although the extinction of human life on Earth may seem like the stuff of science fiction, it is a frighteningly likely scenario. A recent study by the University of Bristol, which used a ...

This period coincided with a major glaciation event that triggered one of Earth’s “big five” mass extinctions – the Ordovician-Silurian extinction event. The devastating glaciation event ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a halt ...

Scientists working to unlock the secrets of de-extinction recently announced what they say is a turning point for the movement: the creation of transgenic mice with long, luxurious golden locks of ...

From 40 million individuals in the 1980s, three vulture species in India (the white-rumped vulture, the long-billed vulture, and the slender-billed vulture) suddenly faced near-extinction in 2007. The ...

About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species vanished during the end-Permian mass extinction—the most extreme event of its kind in Earth's history. What followed was a ...