Less than a year ago, United States company Colossal Biosciences announced it had “resurrected” the dire wolf, a ...
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 ...
Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are ...
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 ...
Once upon a time, the likes of Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg imagined a world where scientists on the cutting edge of genetic research pieced together bits of DNA, both ancient and modern, to ...
In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...
While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A ...
An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...
East-west coastlines trap marine species during warming, blocking escape routes and increasing extinction risk over millions ...