Al Hicks, former DEC wildlife biologist, talks about endangered animals and climate change in Bolton Landing in late June.

"Finding these three individuals [at a new location] is already a good sign that the species still exists," Hajaniaina ...

The Trump administration’s attempt to weaken the Endangered Species Act is easy to criticize. This month, it proposed a rule that would limit what constitutes “harm” under the law to only ...

Colossal Biosciences, an American biotechnology company, announced the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf, a prehistoric wolf species that died out more than 10,000 years ago, in April 2025. Three ...

Climate change and habitat loss could cause more than 500 bird species to go extinct in the next 100 years, researchers from ...

The company extracted DNA from fossils up to 72,000 years old to recreate the extinct species, which disappeared about 12,500 years ago. ... And that is very cool.” ...

When news broke that Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-based biotechnology company, had resurrected three extinct dire wolves, the internet reacted with awe.It is a species that last roamed the earth ...

Earlier this week, Colossal Biosciences claimed that they’d brought the dire wolf back from extinction after some 12,000 years. They debuted photos of five-month-old Romulus and Remus, two ...

A proposed change to the Endangered Species Act has local environmental groups worried. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are looking to repeal ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed stripping the Gila chub of its Endangered Species Act protections on Monday.

Some extinct animals also performed vital services in their ecosystems, which might benefit from their return. Siberia, for example, was home 12,000 years ago to mammoths and other big grazing ...

“The Endangered Species List has become like the Hotel California: once a species enters, they never leave. In fact, 97 percent of species that are added to the endangered list remain there.