Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are ...

Many people around the world are obsessed with finding animals that are presumed extinct. Although this may sound impossible, animal rediscoveries happen more often than you might think. Some ...

Scientists have successfully sequenced the genome of the long-extinct woolly rhinoceros from an unusual place: the stomach ...

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 ...

Researchers were able to sequence the full genome from the 14,000-year-old chunk of preserved woolly rhinoceros meat.

Two Mississippi teenagers went to a creek on a hot summer day in June and not only did they find relief from the heat, they discovered a fossil from a giant animal that went extinct more than 10,000 ...

Brandon Ballengée’s ‘Frameworks of Absence’ (2006–ongoing) in the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts booth at the 2015 Armory Show (photo by Jillian Steinhauer/Hyperallergic) (click to enlarge) The animals have ...

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