Modern genetic research is “pushing the boundaries of what’s possible” by bringing extinct animals back to life, but could it ...

When Sudan the white rhino was put down by his carers earlier this year, it confirmed the extinction of one of the savannah’s most iconic subspecies. Despite decades of effort from conservationists, ...

Grief for an animal at the end of its life is unlike any other emotion. It cleaves a depthless void that feels empty and hollow. It’s a feeling that animal keepers and caretakers know well, but it’s ...

Last year, hiking in Morocco’s eastern Atlas Mountains, I found an ammonite, a fossil of those spiral-shape cephalopods that to many symbolize paleontology itself. The fossilization process had turned ...

In centuries past, large flocks of noisy, brightly colored parrots squawked their way across the United States—from New England, to Florida, to eastern Colorado. The Carolina parakeet, or Conuropsis ...

"We should never forget that it is these personal struggles that make up the extinction process ... Extinction is not a cold calculus about the numbers of breeding females and the degree of genetic ...