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

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

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

For 'Jurassic Park' fans wondering if that technology could actually exist, one company is working on something similar — ...

Although the wooly mammoth is something out of the Natural History Museum, an American biotechnology company is currently attempting to de-extinct animals once thought lost to time. Colossal ...

Understandably, this has generated a lot of “Jurassic Park”-like excitement, and the press coverage has been intense. One ...

The creation of three "dire wolf" pups has raised hopes that it may be possible to resurrect extinct animals. But some ...

Dire wolves — or really, wolves with traits like the extinct species — are back. But New York has plenty of its own fascinating extinct species.

"When I saw the tooth, I knew that it was morphologically a woolly mammoth." Zazula sent a sample from the tooth to Dalén's lab, where the team analyzed the tooth's mitochondrial DNA. The analysis ...

"When I saw the tooth, I knew that it was morphologically a woolly mammoth." Love Dalén, professor of evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University, hold a mammoth tusk while doing fieldwork in ...

to an imagined encounter with a woolly mammoth. Throughout them all, Kanze’s writing is warm, witty, and accessible. Ed Kanze made the trip up to the North Country Public Radio studios recently ...

Taking post outside of the museum’s new research, education and collections center are two 2,000-pound adult woolly mammoth statues. The life-size creatures are made of a steel frame that is ...