The Pinzón saddleback tortoise, a small giant tortoise species native to Pinzón Island in the Galapagos characterized by a ...

Museum bones holding tiny scraps of DNA were enough to rebuild two missing branches of the Galápagos tortoise family tree.

Using a new combination of computational tools to analyze ancient DNA, Yale researchers have discovered two ancient, extinct giant tortoise lineages that once lived on the Galapagos Islands.

One animal holds a world record so bizarre it required the invention of modern cloning just to make it possible. The Pyrenean ...

On February 20, 2026, 158 juvenile giant tortoises, each with DNA from the long-extinct Floreana giant tortoise species, were released on Floreana in the Galápagos archipelago. Researchers ...

My inbox started filling up with the supposedly groundbreaking news early Tuesday, breathless news articles about a biological breakthrough that will allow a long-extinct giant bird to walk the Earth ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. We’re losing species at an alarming rate. Could freezing the genetic material of the world’s most endangered animals help save them? Biotech ...

If there are two things you picture when you hear the word “kangaroo,” chances are it’s either a mama with a joey in her pouch or their propensity to hop across the Outback. It’s daunting enough that ...

In a welcome piece of good news for the world’s threatened wildlife, the giant panda has just been downgraded from ‘Endangered’ to ‘Vulnerable’ on the global list of species at risk of extinction, ...