Animals have been going extinct since life began - it is not a modern phenomenon. Scientists estimate that 98% of all the organisms that ever existed on the Earth are now extinct. So what is the ...

But as the science advances, a deeper question lingers: how close must the result ... wolf to mimic key traits of the extinct dire wolf. The resulting animals may look the part, but with so ...

Reintroduction of captive-bred animals has had mixed success. This California butterfly lost habitat to grazing and drought and is considered to be extinct. The last live one was seen in the wild ...

Time magazine captured the news eloquently with a cover picture of the dire wolf, which bears a close ... of another animal quite similar to the species or character of that extinct animal.

A vanishing species of whale gave birth to few babies this birthing season, raising alarms among scientists and ...

Resurrecting extinct animals is both “exhilarating and terrifying,” says Beth Shapiro, an expert in ancient DNA and a biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Exhilarating ...

The creation of three "dire wolf" pups has raised hopes that it may be possible to resurrect extinct animals. But some scientists have grave concerns. When news broke that Colossal Biosciences ...

When one company proclaimed it had brought back the dire wolf, the response was joyous. But de-extinction remains a dangerous ...

Australia’s giant Protemnodon kangaroos didn’t die out everywhere at the same time. Instead, extinction proceeded one habitat ...

It’s not even close. — Paul S. Knoepfler, UC Davis Umm, not so fast. Many in the genetics community have questioned whether the three animals produced at Colossal’s genetics laboratory and ...

In an East Village gallery, K Allado-McDowell has created an audiovisual tribute to species we have lost as a rehearsal for a proposed physical monument.