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 ...

Funky fish, psychedelic spiders and fluffy gibbons are among the highly threatened animals conservationists say need to be ...

From dire wolves to woolly mammoths, the idea of resurrecting extinct species has captured the public imagination. Colossal Biosciences, the Dallas-based biotech company leading the charge, has made ...

The Christmas Island shrew, a species of cone snail (Conus lugubris), the slender-billed curlew, and three Australian mammals ...

Lions, penguins and wriggly millipedes all have to be counted every year. It takes up to a week to count the thousands of animals which live at the zoo.

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 ...

Climate change and habitat loss are having a devastating impact on wildlife around the world, pushing some species, quite literally, to the brink. The International Union for Conservation of Nature ...

Around 2,000 BC — about the time the Egyptian pharaoh Mentuhotep was forming the Middle Kingdom — a woolly mammoth died on a remote island in what is now Siberia. This was no ordinary mammoth, however ...

Believe it or not, animals go extinct all the time. Sadly, the rate of extinction has increased so much since humans spread across the planet, many scientists believe we are living in a major ...

The death of the world's last male northern white rhino has rendered the species "functionally extinct". The only hope of reviving the population is through scientific intervention via IVF. It is a ...

As the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) enters its 200th year as a charity, keepers at London Zoo have started counting ...

The Government of the United Arab Emirates has issued a comprehensive package of updated federal laws to support and develop ...