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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...

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 ...