The world is currently experiencing its sixth mass extinction, with potentially thousands of species lost every year. Bringing back woolly mammoths, dire wolves, and giant moa (or close approximations ...

Australia's emus (Dromaius novaehollandiae) are the next closest relative, but while these large flightless birds are physically more similar to giant moa, they're still not as big, growing to an ...

Lord of the Rings' director Peter Jackson and his partner Fran Walsh invested $15 million in Colossal Biosciences to bring ...

For most extinct Pleistocene megafauna — animals weighing more than 100 pounds — there are still living analogs. Instead of mammoths, there are elephants. Camelops has its camel and llama relatives.

If large creatures like elephants, giraffes and bison are allowed to thrive, they could alter habitats that allow for the ...

The group that resurrected the dire wolf species is looking to reestablish a giant bird with the backing of legendary filmmaker Peter Jackson.

A giant extinct kangaroo that lived in the Australian outback 100,000 years ago would have walked rather than hopped, research has shown. Scientists said the 9ft (2.7m) tall creature, which had a ...

Animal now classified as 'vulnerable' instead of 'endangered' as population has grown since 2004 The Associated Press · Posted: Sep 05, 2016 12:01 PM PDT | Last Updated: September 5, 2016 ...

A giant fossil of the ancestor of modern-day Australian kangaroos that went extinct around 42,000 years ago has been discovered by paleontologists in a finding that sheds more light on the evolution ...

Colossal Biosciences plans to revive the extinct giant moa using DNA edits, sparking debate over de-extinction ethics and the ecological role of GMO animals.