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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.
Four red wolf pups have been successfully cloned by researchers working to rescue North America's most endangered wolf species from extinction. The breakthrough offers new hope for an animal that vanished from the wild in 1980.
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.
Scientists discovered that ocean life bounced back just 2,000 years after the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, seven times faster than previously believed. The finding rewrites what we know about nature's ability to recover from catastrophe.
Scientists in China have uncovered 8,681 fossils from 153 species at a stunning new site, with nearly 60% never seen before. The discovery offers a rare window into ocean life after Earth's first mass extinction.
Scientists in China have uncovered nearly 9,000 fossils representing 153 species from an ancient ocean ecosystem that thrived after Earth's first mass extinction. The discovery is filling crucial gaps in our understanding of how life bounced back and spread across the planet.