The American genetic engineering firm Colossal Biosciences recently announced to much fanfare it had "de-extincted" the dire ...

Resurrecting extinct animals is both “exhilarating and terrifying,” says Beth Shapiro, an expert in ancient DNA and a biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Exhilarating ...

Discover how crocodiles survived two mass extinctions thanks to their flexible diets and habitats, according to research.

Utah researchers say they believe they now know how existing crocodile, alligator and gharial species survived a pair of mass ...

Under the company's definition, a de-extinct animal must share some genetic similarities to the extinct species, but does not have to be identical. Many scientists disagreed with Colossal's ...

The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...

Meet Romulus and Remus—the world’s first de-extinct animals, born on October 1, 2024. The dire wolf has been extinct for over 10,000 years. These two wolves were brought back from extinction ...

Most people think of crocodilians as living fossils—stubbornly unchanged, prehistoric relics that have ruled the world's ...

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AS we head towards the 20th meeting of the parties to the UN Convention on International Trade In Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) late this year, we need to wonder why the ...

Could a private citizen get hold of a genome and use it to bring an extinct animal back to life? Tracy Walker Could a private citizen get hold of a genome and use it to bring an extinct animal ...