• 13 million years ago, a medium-sized monkey known for guarding its territory among the treetops with a fearsome “howl” started doing something new. This monkey, one of the oldest known ancestors of ...

The new species, named after the electro funk band Chromeo, helps explain the larger story of why only one small group of dinosaurs survived the extinction. A fossil rarely reveals an animal’s entire ...

In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...

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In Wakka Wakka's award-winning puppet musical "Dead as a Dodo" — at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre this week — the humans might wear sequins, but they’re not the main characters.

Until now, scientists have only known about the animals from fossils. But they suspected the creatures might still be alive, because the remote, difficult-to-navigate region where the fossils were ...

A Texas biotech company is trying to bring mammoths and other extinct creatures back to life. The science is as intriguing as the ethical questions are thorny.

ArtsEmerson will present Dead as a Dodo, a visually inventive and emotionally resonant theatrical work by internationally acclaimed theater company Wakka Wakka. Running March 5 – 8, 2026 at the ...

More than 99% of all species that have ever lived are now extinct - and today, many scientists believe we are driving a sixth mass extinction. From the baiji dolphin of China’s Yangtze River to the ...

see more of our stories on Google. Add Axios on Google Visitors to the Colossal Biosciences lab in Dallas are greeted by an animatronic dire wolf near a large video screen showing one of the dire ...

The Dallas, Texas headquarters of Colossal Biosciences, a startup that aims to bring various animals, including the woolly mammoth and dodo bird, back from extinction. John Davidson An animatronic ...