Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There’s an important concept in evolutionary biology called ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, Australia was still home to enigmatic megafauna—large land animals such as giant marsupial wombats, flightless birds, and short-faced giant kangaroos known as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colossal Biosciences — which announced in April that it had brought dire wolves back from extinction (only to be met with a howl ...

(CNN) — A species of huge, flightless bird that once inhabited New Zealand disappeared around 600 years ago, shortly after human settlers first arrived on the country’s two main islands. Now, a ...

The dodo has been extinct for more than 300 years, but that isn't stopping Dallas' Colossal Biosciences from trying to resurrect the 3-foot-tall, flightless bird. On Sept. 17, the "de-extinction" ...

The fossil was discovered in Boodjamulla National Park, officials said. Brian McMahon`via Unsplash Fossil remains of a large, now-extinct bird species have been discovered in Australia’s Boodjamulla ...