This was an alarming start to the idea of gene de-extinction. As we know from movies like The Thing, digging up frozen creatures from the ice is a bad idea. Many scientists felt that recovering the ...

Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.

Colossal has focused on identifying key traits of extinct animals by studying ancient DNA ... "I mean, elephants don't get cancer, which is very strange," he told CBS News.

In 2007, a team led by Stanford geobiologist Kevin Boyce found that carbon isotopes in the fossils resembled those of fungi — ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a thorough examination of the pigment-producing cells present in living mammals, ...

Using high-tech genetic engineering, they aim to bring back distinguishing features of extinct animals such as the ... which is very strange," Lamm explained. "Elephants have thousands and ...

Ecosystems which have never been seen before are being accidentally created by humans. They offer a stark look into the ...