At the end of the Ice Age, temperatures around the globe started to climb, leading to an increase in vegetation. Scientists ...

Long before global warming was the biggest environmental issue, the planet was in the opposite kind of funk — an ice age lasting around 2.6 million years. During this time, starting about 700,000 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists studied a 39,000-year-old woolly mammoth that was trapped in Siberian permafrost - Reuters/Pichi Chuang Woolly mammoths ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colossal Biosciences aims to rewrite history as they work to resurrect extinct species – and their sights are set on the woolly ...

Just like humans, mammoths had a robust community of microorganisms living on their skin and inside their bodies. Now, for the first time, scientists have identified some of the individual species ...

My inbox started filling up with the supposedly groundbreaking news early Tuesday, breathless news articles about a biological breakthrough that will allow a long-extinct giant bird to walk the Earth ...

In just the last several months, de-extinction—bringing back extinct species by recreating them or organisms that resemble them—has moved closer from science fiction to science fact. Colossal ...

Amy Scott, host of the podcast "How We Survive," reports on a company that's working on de-extinction innovation to try and ...

Jerry A. Coyne is professor emeritus of ecology and evolution at the University of Chicago. A recent display in Time magazine features a photo of a handsome white dog-like animal, a dire wolf. The ...