The news that the extinct dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus) has supposedly been brought back from the dead has taken the world by storm. The biotech company Colossal Biosciences claims it has officially ...

From dire wolves to woolly mammoths, the idea of resurrecting extinct species has captured the public imagination. Colossal Biosciences, the Dallas-based biotech company leading the charge, has made ...

Extinction is a part of nature. Of the five billion species that have existed on Earth, 99.9 per cent have vanished. The Late Devonian extinction, nearly four hundred million years ago, annihilated ...

A version of the dodo bird (Raphus cucullatus) could make a return someday soon. Colossal Biosciences announced this week several milestones in its quest to bring the extinct species back to life. On ...

The dire wolf went extinct around 10,000 years ago. The recent claim that a U.S. biotechnology company resurrected the long-extinct dire wolf through genetic engineering seemed to shock the science ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

If all goes to plan, Ben Lamm’s next Christmas card to his friends will be of him posing with a woolly mammoth and a dodo. Lamm, 43, is the billionaire entrepreneur who founded Colossal Biosciences, a ...

As the Trump administration slashes funding for health, energy and climate research, there’s one science the administration is promoting: de-extinction. Earlier this month, a biotechnology company ...