Gigantopithecus was the largest ape to ever walk the Earth, possibly standing nearly 10 feet tall. Yet we have never found a complete skeleton, only massive teeth and fragments of jaw. It lived ...

Gigantopithecus blacki stood nearly 3 meters tall and weighed up to 300 kilograms. Fossil evidence from southern China reveals how climate change and dietary specialization likely led to its ...

Christopher Lean receives funding from the Australian Government through the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology (project number CE200100029). Andrew James Latham has been supported by a ...

Less than a year ago, United States company Colossal Biosciences announced it had "resurrected" the dire wolf, a megafauna-hunting wolf species that had been extinct for 10,000 years. Within two days ...

Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a small quarry in China, scientists revealed Wednesday. The treasure trove of ...

Six animal species, including the slender-billed curlew and Christmas Island shrew, were confirmed extinct in 2025. Habitat loss, invasive species, climate change, and hunting are the primary drivers ...

Johannes M. Luetz does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

In the world of prehistoric creatures, few have captured the imagination as much as Gigantopithecus blacki. Known as the largest primate ever to have walked the Earth, this giant ape ruled southern ...

Whether a species just freshly emerged, or it has been around for millions of years does not dictate its vulnerability. This has been the assumption of an old debate on whether species’ age plays a ...

Extinction rates appear to have slowed since their peak in the early 1900s, suggesting not a reprieve for nature but a shift in how and where losses occur. Much of the damage was concentrated on ...

Knoepfler is STAT’s Lab Dish columnist and a professor of cell biology and human anatomy at UC Davis School of Medicine. De-extinction firm Colossal Biosciences announced Tuesday that it was acquiring ...