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 ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How Trump plans to change the Endangered Species Act The Trump administration has announced major changes to the Endangered Species Act, the landmark law signed by President Richard Nixon that's ...

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.

Scientists have shocked the world by bringing back the extinct dire wolf species which ... comparative genomics approach really do cause an animal to have a woolly coat and a golden coat and ...