The American genetic engineering firm Colossal Biosciences recently announced to much fanfare it had "de-extincted" the dire ...

Native to northern Mexico and the southwestern United States, the desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) once roamed all over the vast Mojave and Sonoran deserts, marking the landscape with their ...

Seventy critically endangered Mojave desert tortoises are bringing hope to their threatened species. Six months ago, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance (SDWZA) and The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens ...

erectus is an extinct species of early human that emerged about ... They found that Engaji Nanyori was a dry, semi-desert ...

Dire wolves went extinct roughly 13,000 years ago ... Here's a look at what we know about the prehistoric species: Along with saber-toothed cats and enormous short-faced bears, dire wolves ...

The desert rat-kangaroo — a small marsupial species — was declared extinct in 1994. But, scientists believe it could be alive and “evading detection,” according to a new study. Photo from ...

“All you can do now is make something look superficially like something else”— not fully revive extinct species, said Vincent Lynch, a biologist at the University at Buffalo who was not ...

“Desert wetlands are epicenters of biodiversity and by protecting ... and Wildlife Service using the best available science to make a final decision on Endangered Species Act protection. Tecopa bird’s ...

“This species is an important part of the ecosystem ... “I’m really excited to get these endangered desert pupfish back into Ayer Lake,” Brett Montgomery, AZGFD topminnow and pupfish ...