Images and a video of what was initially believed to be of a dog in "dire need of help," circulated on the internet with many people including those who captured it believing they saw a Tasmanian ...

What if an animal extinct for nearly 100 years could suddenly be brought back to life with the click of a camera? That is what Greg Booth and his father George Booth hoped to do when they set up 14 ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on April 14, 2024. The original video can be viewed here. There's the Loch Ness monster in Scotland. And in the Himalayas, there's the yeti, the ...

Thanks to a remarkably well-preserved thylacine skull, scientists managed to assemble the most complete Tasmanian tiger genome to date. At the same time, scientists have also been able to isolate long ...

Tasmanian tigers were hunted to extinction decades ago, but a recent scientific breakthrough has raised hope that the animal and potentially other long-lost species could one day be resurrected.