From dire wolves to woolly mammoths, the idea of resurrecting extinct species has captured the public imagination. Colossal Biosciences, the Dallas-based biotech company leading the charge, has made ...

Colossal Biosciences opens global HQ with 100 scientists focused on "de-extinction," using CRISPR to revive species like the ...

Let’s start with what should be obvious: The wolf pups are not dire wolves, and they haven’t been “de-extincted.” The fluffy white canines — Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi — unveiled this week by ...

With its latest accomplishments, Colossal Biosciences expects to functionally restore the dodo within the next 5 to 7 years.

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 ...

Unique creatures, odd animals and new species are being discovered across the planet. Some are found lurking in remote corners of the world, while others have been hiding right under our noses. Take a ...

For months, researchers in a laboratory in Dallas, Texas, worked in secrecy, culturing grey-wolf blood cells and altering the DNA within. The scientists then plucked nuclei from these gene-edited ...

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 ...

The Wilds is a 10,000-acre animal conservation park in rural southeastern Ohio. See how the hidden gem is trying to save endangered animals.

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

About 95 million years ago, a juvenile crocodyliform nicknamed Elton lived in what is now southwest Montana at the edge of ...

Many of New Zealand's unique birds are heading toward extinction. So the country is taking on an ambitious conservation ...