In April of 2025, headlines across the world announced that the dire wolf had been brought back from extinction. This 130-150 lbs wolf species, about 25% heavier than modern-day gray wolves, had not ...
After 225 years extinct, scientists have sequenced DNA and edited cells to move the bluebuck closer to a return.
Should we bring back extinct animals? Wrong question. Why are we bringing back extinct animals when we have animals, plants, and fungi that are going extinct now, daily? By 2050, up to half of all ...
After the successful de-extinction of dire wolves, scientists from Colossal Biosciences are planning to bring back the ...
Archaeologists in central China have uncovered 146,000-year-old stone butchery tools crafted by the extinct human species Homo juluensis during a harsh ice age. The tools’ complexity challenges ...
Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...
Colossal Biosciences’ ’de-extinction’ programme aims to revive species such as the dire wolf, the woolly mammoth and the dodo ...
A poignant recounting of the tangled and unnatural histories of extinction and empire, and how extinction is not necessarily inevitable but instead, is a political choice. One of the most famous and ...