A team of researchers traced the wild animal source of monkeypox virus to the fire-footed rope squirrel Funisciurus pyrropus ...

On a small island of Papua New Guinea, a 4-foot-long creature moved through the overgrown rainforest covering the site of an abandoned village. Its orange eyes scanned its surroundings, but it wasn’t ...

This week, a Texas-based biosciences company, which aims to “de-extinct” animal species of the past (and ones that will go ...

Japan's Ryukyu Islands, which includes Okinawa, are the exclusive home to two rare mammals, the Amami rabbit and Ryukyu long-furred rat. These animals are hard to observe, but conservationists wish to ...

Three genetically engineered wolves that may resemble extinct dire wolves are trotting, sleeping and howling in an ...

A Texas-based startup has revived the long-extinct dire wolf, but should we take their efforts with a pinch of salt?

A raccoon caused a large number of outages in northwestern Connecticut last month. Those types of animal power outages are ...

Biotech company Colossal Biosciences said it has brought back the dire wolf, an animal that went extinct 10,000 years ago, through its de-extinction process.

The dire wolf once roamed an American range that extended as far south as Venezuela and as far north as Canada, but not a ...

For the first time in thousands of years, dire wolves are alive – or at least a close approximation to them – as scientists claim to have achieved the world's first successful animal ...