Scientists say they have "restored" an extinct zebra subspecies. May 27, 2011 -- Imagine if the woolly mammoth roamed the earth once more. Japanese scientists say the elephantine beast could be cloned ...
Extinction has always been final — until now. Advances in genome sequencing, cloning, and genetic engineering have given scientists a real pathway to bring extinct animals back to life. This process, ...
Dire wolves stalk modern imagination as fantasy mascots, but the real animals were Ice Age predators that lived, hunted, and ...
"The Mammoth Commeth," blares the cover of The New York Times magazine's latest issue, complete with an image of the long-extinct furry mastodon. "Bringing extinct animals back to life is really ...
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 ...
In recent months, the Dallas-based biotech firm Colossal Biosciences announced the rebirth of the long-extinct dire wolf and woolly mammoth, species that had been extinct for thousands of years, ...
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 ...
Advancing science may make it possible to bring back extinct species like the dire wolf—but should it? CU Boulder environmental studies and philosophy Professor Ben Hale says the answer is complicated ...
The Texas entrepreneur working to bring back the woolly mammoth has added a new species to his revival list: the dodo. Recreating this flightless bird, a symbol of human-caused extinction, is a chance ...