From dire wolves to woolly mammoths, the idea of resurrecting extinct species has captured the public imagination. Colossal ...

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

In the US, a bridge across a major 10-lane high speed freeway is being built at a cost of more than US$100 million so that ...

Colossal Biosciences says its aim is to bring back lost species and help those near extinction. A US bioscience company has reconstructed the complete genome of a wolf species, the dire wolf ...

The recent sighting of a gray whale near Nantucket has captivated the scientific community. Once thought extinct in the ...

(NEXSTAR) — This week, a Texas-based biosciences company, which aims to “de-extinct” animal species of the past (and ones ...

A Texas-based startup has revived the long-extinct dire wolf, but should we take their efforts with a pinch of salt?

The resulting animals may look the part ... There are more grounded examples of near-de-extinction work – most notably the northern white rhinoceros. Only two females remain alive today ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature put the duck's population at 249 animals in 2019, citing the construction ... Vaidl said the bird was already believed to be extinct in the 1950s ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature put the duck's population at 249 animals in 2019 ... said the bird was already believed to be extinct in the 1950s before a new population ...

With that in mind, here are a few extinct species we hope scientists never revive ... dinosaurs — like the T-rex — by ambushing them near prehistoric shores. These “super croc” apex ...