One year ago today, scientists and researchers at Colossal Biosciences saw a breakthrough so startling that, a decade earlier, the scene would be written off as the ravings of a Michael Crichton novel ...

Two of Colossal Biosciences’ dire wolves marked one year since being revived from extinction The birthday was celebrated with ...

concept image of a mass extinction event destroyed city with rubble and smoky air - Dezzzy/Shutterstock A mass extinction event is a term used to describe a large-scale event that wipes out species.

A new analysis suggests that recent extinctions have been rare, limited mostly to islands and slowing. But others argue this is all just semantics.

Not an accolade anyone wants, but for the Xerces blue butterfly, its extinction is considered the first of any American ...

With much controversy swirling around Colossal's proxy dire wolves, we spoke with the company's CEO to find out how these animals were created and what so-called de-extinction technology could mean ...

Mass extinction sounds scary, but it’s basically nature’s biggest reset button. Throughout Earth’s history, there have been ...

Colossal’s latest announcement indicates that the dodo could be de-extinct within a decade, as its dire wolves thrive and ...

If we accept today's numbers as "normal," we risk condemning rhinos to at best permanent near-extinction, with populations ...

Along the shore of Lake Bardawil in Egypt’s, young men traditionally rise at dawn to go bird hunting in centuries-old nets.

In primary school, we learned that pollinators jump from flower to flower and help plants reproduce, giving us a myriad of vegetables, flowers and fruits. We learned that a pollinator can be a bee, a ...