Inside, between rows of incubators and microscopes, Beth Shapiro and her team are attempting a feat straight out of science fiction: reviving the dodo, a bird that’s been extinct for more than three centuries.

Bao Li (BOW-lee) is a 3-year-old male. His mother Bao Bao was born at the institute in 2013 and his grandparents Tian Tian and Mei Xiang lived at National Zoo from 2000 to 2023. Qing Bao (ching-BOW) is a 3-year-old female born to father Qing Qing and mother Jia Mei.

Roughly 201 million years ago, drastic changes extinguished many forms of life and led to conditions that allowed the terrible lizards to thrive

President Trump issued dozens of executive orders shortly after he was sworn in, including two that have the potential to play a role in the effort to recover salmon and steelhead from the Snake and Columbia rivers.

Researchers Find That a Mysterious Event Almost Wiped Out World's Entire Shark Population Analysis of certain shark fossils from the South and North Pacific has made researchers conclude that the magnificent beasts faced an extinction event during the early Miocene period.

Every morning at 7:30 a.m. sharp, a race begins on the outskirts of Chengdu, a sprawling Chinese metropolis known for its spicy hotpot, old tea houses and the country’s most beloved animal – giant pandas.