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Scientists discovered a bus-sized marine crocodile in Tunisia that lived 20 million years later than its species should have gone extinct. The finding is forcing researchers to rethink what they know about ancient mass extinctions.
Scientists discovered a 252-million-year-old fossilized embryo in South Africa that proves our mammal ancestors laid eggs and reveals how they survived Earth's worst mass extinction. The find marks the first confirmed evidence of egg-laying in therapsids, the prehistoric creatures that gave rise to modern mammals.
Species that vanished from Australia over a century ago are now breeding in the wild again, thanks to a groundbreaking conservation partnership. New South Wales just committed to another decade of bringing native animals back from extinction. #
A startup just cracked one of science's toughest problems: growing baby birds entirely outside their shells. The breakthrough could bring extinct species like the dodo back to life.
A Dallas biotech company has successfully grown baby chicks in transparent 3D-printed artificial eggs, marking a breakthrough that could help resurrect extinct bird species like the dodo. The technology also shows promise for advancing organ transplant research and understanding how life develops.
A button-sized snail once thought extinct in Bermuda is now thriving after conservationists bred and released over 100,000 of them back into the wild. The decade-long rescue effort proves that even the smallest creatures can make a massive comeback.
A small gliding possum thought extinct for 6,000 years was discovered alive in Papua's rainforests, earning its own genus in a breakthrough so rare it happens only a few times per year. Indigenous communities knew about "Tous" all along.
Two conservationists are racing across Wales to collect and freeze wild plant seeds before they disappear forever. Their work has already brought extinct species back to life.
A horticulturist snapping photos while banding birds in the Queensland outback just brought a plant back from extinction. The purple-flowered Ptilotus senarius hadn't been seen since 1967, but a simple upload to iNaturalist changed everything.
Scientists discovered two marsupial species thought extinct for millennia living in New Guinea, aided by local Indigenous communities. The ring-tailed glider and pygmy long-fingered possum were previously known only from ancient fossils.
A baby Przewalski's horse was just born at the Bronx Zoo, marking another win for the world's only truly wild horse species that was once extinct in the wild. The entire population of these stocky, mohawk-maned horses descends from just 12 individuals.
Adorable cat-sized mammals are having babies in Devon for the first time in over a century. The successful births prove a bold rewilding project is bringing these once-extinct creatures back home.
A species declared extinct for thousands of years is thriving in Indonesian Papua, and local elders knew about it all along. Their knowledge just helped scientists confirm what the Tambrauw people never forgot.
A button-sized snail once thought lost forever has been officially saved from extinction after conservationists bred and released over 100,000 into the wild. The greater Bermuda snail's rescue marks one of conservation's biggest success stories.
Scientists in China discovered a fossil of a creature that lived through one of Earth's earliest mass extinctions over 500 million years ago. The find proves that early life was tougher and more adaptable than we ever imagined.
The only truly wild horses on Earth were extinct in nature by the 1960s, but a decades-long effort brought them back from the brink. Today, over 1,000 Przewalski's horses roam free across Mongolia, proving extinction doesn't have to be forever.
Brilliant butterfly splitfin fish, extinct in Mexican rivers for decades, are swimming home again thanks to aquarium hobbyists who kept them alive worldwide. A bold 10-year plan is now restoring 90% of Mexico's threatened Goodeid fish family to their natural habitats.
At a hidden 3,200-acre campus in Front Royal, Virginia, scientists are literally reversing extinction. Species once vanished from Earth are now thriving and returning to the wild.
A tiny snail species once thought extinct in Bermuda is thriving again after conservation researchers bred and released over 100,000 of them back into the wild. Six established colonies now flourish across the island, marking a stunning wildlife comeback.
Scientists discovered 91 new animal species in a small Chinese quarry, revealing how life bounced back after a catastrophic extinction event 512 million years ago. The 50,000 fossils offer an unprecedented window into evolution's resilience.
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