Colossal Biosciences made a record-breaking 20 edits across 14 genes in gray wolf cells by adding extinct dire wolf DNA. This was the first time ancient DNA has been used to bioengineer an extinct ...

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 ...

Once common across the grasslands west of Melbourne, the Victorian grassland earless dragon was thought to be extinct for 54 ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

Two marsupial species thought long extinct, until now known only from fossils, were found alive in New Guinea through a collaboration of scientists, indigenous communities and citizen scientists.

Knoepfler is STAT’s Lab Dish columnist and a professor of cell biology and human anatomy at UC Davis School of Medicine. De-extinction firm Colossal Biosciences announced Tuesday that it was acquiring ...

A new report led by Conservation International and IUCN, published today in Oryx, warns that over 40% of more than 8,500 soil ...

Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a small quarry in China, scientists revealed Wednesday. The treasure trove of ...

A new report led by Conservation International and IUCN, published today in Oryx, warns that over 40% of more than 8,500 soil ...

In April of 2025, headlines across the world announced that the dire wolf had been brought back from extinction. This 130-150 lbs wolf species, about 25% heavier than modern-day gray wolves, had not ...