After being extinct in the wild in the UK for 3,000 years, Elk could be making a return. Wildlife Trusts are hoping to reintroduce the species into Britain again as part of a rewilding project.

We discovered fossilised teeth of the now extinct giant kangaroo genus Protemnodon at Mount Etna Caves, north of Rockhampton, in central eastern Queensland. Analysing the teeth gave us a glimpse ...

More information: Megafauna mobility: Assessing the foraging range of an extinct macropodid from central eastern Queensland, Australia, PLOS One (2025). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0319712 .

The dire wolf went extinct around 10,000 years ago. The recent claim that a U.S. biotechnology company resurrected the long-extinct dire wolf through genetic engineering seemed to shock the ...

(NEXSTAR) — This week, a Texas-based biosciences company, which aims to “de-extinct” animal species of the past (and ones that will go extinct in the future), said it managed to engineer ...

Three genetically engineered wolves that may resemble extinct dire wolves are trotting ... is the finishing move of how to kill a giant elk or a big deer,” because they won’t have ...

Three genetically engineered wolves that may resemble extinct dire wolves are trotting ... is the finishing move of how to kill a giant elk or a big deer,” because they won’t have ...

Yes, you read that right, this is actually a reintroduction effort. There were native elk here, and they were eastern elk that were actually a little larger than the western elk that are being ...

Elk, also called wapiti, used to graze throughout most of the country, but the Eastern Elk was driven to extinction through hunting and habitat loss soon after the arrival of European settlers.

Eastern quoll populations have been declining in Tasmania since the turn of the century and the animal was declared extinct on mainland Australia in 1963. Last month, two dozen captive-bred ...