Picture this: snow dusts the ground of a vast plain. Mountains rise in the distance, powerful winds sweep chilly air from the ...

Revive the woolly mammoth1? It is an utterly mad idea. The furry pachyderm with the twisty tusks that went extinct 4,000 ...

Gene editing can cure illnesses, ensure global food security, conserve species and more. But its risks of misuse are ...

Shapiro believes that we owe this to both the Earth and to ourselves. "Conservation isn't just about saving species, but ...

The saola’s newly sequenced genome offers hope for one of Earth’s rarest mammals.

One of these animals, known as the Asian unicorn, is now one step closer to being found ... Much like the recent efforts to bring back the woolly mammoth and dire wolves, the saola genome could be ...

Unlike the shaggy woolly mammoth found farther north, it more closely resembled an African bush elephant. “There’s a long history of mammoths all over Utah,” Faith said, adding they were the ”biggest ...

They are originally from Thailand and belong to the Asian elephant species. The authors were allowed ... Basilyan A.E., Anisimov M.A., Nikolskiy P.A. and Pitulko V.V. (2011) Wooly mammoth mass ...

And to the wider world, it’s known simply as the “Asian Unicorn ... similar to efforts already underway for the woolly mammoth and the thylacine. It’s a controversial idea, but one ...