The world is currently experiencing its sixth mass extinction, with potentially thousands of species lost every year.

A company that claims to have resurrected the dire wolf has unveiled plans to bring back the moa, a long-extinct bird that ...

A 13-million-year-old leg bone from an enormous flightless bird carries crocodilian tooth marks, showing South America was ...

The term de-extinction is inaccurate, but conservation is still the best way to achieve its stated goals. We need to save the ...

In a “Jurassic Park”-esque fashion, “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson and the Texas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences are partnering to “de-extinct” the centuries-extinct New Zealand ...

The endangered kakapo is a flightless bird native to New Zealand. Its population is growing, but its parasites have dwindled.

A biotech company that claims to have brought dire wolves back from extinction has announced plans to resurrect giant extinct birds called moa. However, experts say that dire wolves were never truly ...

K NOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A new flock has arrived at Zoo Knoxville, with six new ostriches taking over what was formerly the ...

Once abundant on the island of Mauritius, the Dodo bird became an iconic symbol of extinction due to human actions. This ...

Since last being sighted in 1662, the dodo has become the symbol of extinction.

CNN’s Michael Holmes reports on the efforts underway in New Zealand to protect the kiwi, the country’s iconic national bird.

A species of huge, flightless bird that once inhabited New Zealand disappeared around 600 years ago, shortly after human settlers first arrived on the country’s two main islands. Now, a Texas ...