Talk about plot twists in nature's story! While many creatures face the final curtain call of extinction, some spectacular species have pulled off the ultimate comeback tour. Some extinct species may ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There’s an important concept in evolutionary biology called ...

A plan to genetically engineer a version of the dodo, a giant flightless bird that disappeared 400 years ago and became the poster child for extinction, has made some headway, according to Texas-based ...

Once upon a time, the likes of Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg imagined a world where scientists on the cutting edge of genetic research pieced together bits of DNA, both ancient and modern, to ...

After his company, Colossal Biosciences, successfully revived the dire wolf from extinction, he's ready to continue to change the world for the better, one cell at a time. By Carly Thomas Associate ...

The flightless birds were decimated by invasive creatures that humans brought with them to the country Michael Nied has been a digital news editor with PEOPLE since 2025. He has previously been ...

In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the land. But for some species, that evolution also involved a return trip.

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...

Ben Lamm is making the impossible possible, working to bring animals back from extinction. Though it was a difficult feat to accomplish in under five years, his company, Colossal Biosciences, which he ...