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

"Their return will be an important milestone for this ambitious venture." Rangers celebrate after trail cameras capture the ...

Over the past week, the media have been inundated with news of the “de-extinction” of the dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus) – a species that went extinct about 13,000 years ago.

There was a lot of hype about an American company's announcement about ancient dire wolves. It raises questions about the bid ...

National Museum of Australia - Extinction of Thylacine ... IUCN SSC Guiding Principles on Creating Proxies of Extinct Species for Conservation Benefit. IUCN Species Survival Commission, 2016 ...

There's still a tiny population on the Central Coast, and an occasional individual will turn up in places like this, one ...

Sea Life Sydney Aquarium has bred and released over 250 southern pygmy perch into wetlands north of Canberra, Australia, according to Merlin Entertainments. The perch has been the victim of habitat ...

The US Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the definition of "harm" in the Endangered Species Act should exclude "actions that impair the habitat ...

The Trump administration proposed to loosen federal protections for endangered species Wednesday. A draft rule from the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Political battles and partisan ideologies are threatening the survival of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and the animals that it is supposed to serve, researchers are warning. Wildlife ...

Last year, the world heard sounds not heard on the planet for over 12,000 years: the call of a Dire Wolf, a species that went extinct before ‘civilisation’ was even a concept humans knew.

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 ...