Should we bring back extinct animals? Wrong question. Why are we bringing back extinct animals when we have animals, plants, and fungi that are going extinct now, daily? By 2050, up to half of all ...

Quick Take Six animal species, including the slender-billed curlew and Christmas Island shrew, were confirmed extinct in 2025 ...

From the end of nature to the beginning of the anthropocene -- Lost dogs, last birds, and listed species: elegy and comedy in conservation stories -- From arks to ARKive.org: database, epic, and ...

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 ...

“We see no possible way this could go wrong,” wrote the Jurassic World account on X, in tongue-in-cheek response to the news. Most experts USA TODAY spoke with agreed that attempts to de-extinct ...

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 ...

Advancing science may make it possible to bring back extinct species like the dire wolf—but should it? CU Boulder environmental studies and philosophy Professor Ben Hale says the answer is complicated ...

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact periods in history when it happened are less well known. Was it a single ...

Colossal Biosciences has brought back the now-formerly-extinct dire wolf. If you’re a Game of Thrones fan, you’ll probably recognize the name of the animal that vanished from the face of the earth ...

Colossal Biosciences has announced a partnership to resurrect giant flightless birds called moa. But the company's recent dire wolf project was controversial, and moa are an even more ambitious target ...