And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...
Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact periods in history when it happened are less well known. Was it a single ...
In 1938, zoologist Ellis Le Geyt Troughton mourned that Australia’s “gentle and specialized creatures” were “unable to cope with changed conditions and introduced enemies”. The role of these “enemies” ...
Long after an animal’s soft tissues have vanished, its skull still carries a blueprint of how it sensed the world. For extinct mammals, those bony clues now show that noses were not just prominent ...
By Eric Washburn When I was a kid growing up in Aurora in the late 1960s and early 1970s, one of my favorite things to do was ...
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 ...
On the second floor of a sleek but unremarkable office building just west of downtown Dallas, Texas, an animatronic white wolf stands atop a promontory, slowly surveying the vast entry area for ...
The dire wolf, a large, wolflike species that went extinct about 12,000 years ago, has been in the news after biotech company Colossal claimed to have resurrected it using cloning and gene-editing ...
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