The Christmas Island shrew, a species of cone snail (Conus lugubris), the slender-billed curlew, and three Australian mammals ...
The bioscience startup has attracted billions in investment – and a flurry of criticism, but founder tells the Guardian plans to bring back the woolly mammoth will not be derailed ...
It’s official: the only Australian shrew is no more. The latest edition of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List, the world’s most comprehensive global inventory on ...
The Maui nukupuʻu, a short-tailed Hawaiian bird with a long bill, has not been seen by scientists since 1996. It was declared extinct by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2021, along with 22 other ...
From an Australian frog that swallowed its own eggs to woolly mammoths, scientists are getting ever closer to being able to bring long-lost species back from the dead. Millions of years ago thylacines ...
Earth has experienced five mass extinctions caused by natural phenomena, but a new study suggests a sixth event is underway and human activities are to blame. The research, led by the University of ...
Giant bears from the Pleistocene era could be one of the animal species set to be resurrected by scientists in the coming years. A giant Ice Age bear and a five-foot beaver are the latest candidates ...
It's one of the most famous extinct animals of all time, ruthlessly hunted to extinction by humans in just a few decades. Now, scientists are edging closer to bringing the famous dodo back to its ...
Would you like to see a real, live wooly mammoth? Or how about a Tasmanian tiger in the flesh? Scientists have already finagled a few ways to resurrect extinct species from their evolutionary graves.
The process is called ‘de-extinction’, effectively, it is claimed, reversing extinction. These stories also have an optimistic tone. The announcement of a genetically modified Dire wolf raises the ...
Scientists are preparing ambitious plans to resurrect long-dead animals from passenger pigeons to woolly mammoths. But can they succeed? A century ago, vast flocks of passenger pigeons covered the ...
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