In what will likely be long remembered as a landmark achievement for conservation genomics, a team at Colossal Biosciences has announced that they have successfully brought the dire wolf, or at least ...

While it is always a shame to see more animals go extinct, the report did include some good news. The IUCN noted that the ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ...

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 ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Concerning findings about the world's freshwater fish population, 25% are in danger of extinction according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. It's a ...

DALLAS — Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences recreated the once-extinct dire wolf, the company announced in a press release Wednesday. The de-extinction company said the successful birth of three dire ...

A funding crisis at the Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, N.Y., could scatter priceless specimens and end nearly a century of pioneering research.

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Knoepfler is STAT’s Lab Dish columnist and a professor of cell biology and human anatomy at UC Davis School of Medicine. De-extinction firm Colossal Biosciences announced Tuesday that it was acquiring ...

Far too many animals from Earth’s second-most remote continent have gone extinct in the past 10,000 years. Here’s one such example. In the year 1930, a striking photograph was taken. To this day, it ...

Humans will likely go extinct eventually, leaving behind a planet that has to adjust in their wake. While there is no true consensus as to what a human-free world will look like, there are a number of ...