Shapiro's new book examines the capacity of science to bring back extinct animals. UC Santa Cruz Humans have long tinkered with life—what’s the most fascinating example? Domestication ...

An international team of scientists have added human consumption to ... almost impossible to know which species are being traded and whether they are endangered. Frogs and other amphibians are at ...

The tough decision of which species to save ... now at what’s driving this extinction crisis and what it… Group aims to reintroduce Jaguars — once nearly hunted to extinction — to ...

"It was a human-driven extinction – European settlers came to Australia and brutally obliterated this animal," says Andrew Pask, a geneticist at the University of Melbourne. Pask is leading a ...

suggesting that humans rapidly hunted many big game animals to extinction. In the Americas and Australia, where humans first arrived later than in Eurasia or Africa, human beings proved ...

Scientists say the Trump administration’s embrace of de-extinction won’t help endangered species like the Great Lakes gray ...

Animals and humans have always ... entered the sixth mass extinction event on the geological record. In the last few hundred years, rampant pollution and relentless hunting means we have lost ...

After the birth of three pups has been called the "de-extinction" of a species not seen on Earth in more than 10,000 years, the company that made it possible has it sights set on resurrecting more ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species is the world’s most comprehensive list on the global extinction ... application to human and wildlife ...

Others, for whatever reason, died and became extinct. But now humans are involved in every aspect of the life cycle of every species. For example this month, American scientists reported bringing ...