The following animals don’t bury their dead, but they do perform death rituals that appear to stem either from grief or, in the case of insects, keeping their nest free of pathogens and disease.

The world is currently experiencing its sixth mass extinction, with potentially thousands of species lost every year.

Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like this one ...

In other words, phytoplankton, cyanobacteria, and other dead organisms, free or attached to aggregates -- the so-called marine snow -- travel through the water column to the deep-sea bed, where their ...

Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many technical and ethical hurdles, what is the real motivation?

A U.S. company has taken a step aimed at bringing the dire wolf back from oblivion. Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences has announced the birth of three genetically engineered wolf pups − all with ...

Death by feral cat: DNA shows cats to be culprits in killing of native animals Date: March 10, 2025 Source: University of New South Wales Summary: Feral cats have long been suspects in killing ...

‘The Genetic Book of the Dead’: Reading Starts With DNA For Richard Dawkins, the history of life is like a novel that never ends. Revisions can be dramatic.

De-extinction company Colossal Biosciences announces the rebirth of the once-extinct dire wolf, the world’s first successfully de-extincted animal.

To de-extinct a species, Colossal scientists extract the extinct species' DNA from fossils or museum specimens, reassemble its full genetic code (or genome), then compare it to the genome of their ...

However, because these edits were based on modern wolf DNA and computational modeling, the resulting animals are approximations of their ice age ancestors, not replicas.

Humans aren’t the only species that mourn their dead. Mother chimpanzees have been observed carrying their dead babies for months, continuing to groom them during this time. Giraffes, crows, and ...