In the case of the thylacine, the first step is sequencing the extinct ... to eat still exists, so there's somewhere for them to go and they can thrive again in that environment. "This animal ...

Named for the crone-bird hybrid of Greek mythology, the appearance of this large and majestic raptor is worthy of the ...

The saola, an antelope-like bovine, is one of the world’s rarest and most endangered mammals. In fact, it hasn’t been ...

The creation of three "dire wolf" pups has raised hopes that it may be possible to resurrect extinct animals. But some ...

To breathless media coverage, a company called Colossal Biosciences now claims to have produced three genetically engineered ...

But since the trio were bred using gray wolves’ genome, some experts say the animals are not full dire wolves. Still ... at some of the other extinct animals who may soon be walking the Earth ...

Is it extinct, or does it still roam somewhere deep in the misty highland forests of Vietnam and Laos? It has been nicknamed ...

The recent claim the long extinct dire wolf was resurrected made headlines around the world. But bioethicists and ecologists say there are ethical concerns.

“The goal of de-extinction has never been to create perfect genetic copies of an extinct ... The species — once common in most of the eastern and southern United States — still exists ...

The result is essentially a hybrid species similar in appearance to its extinct ... may help rare species adapt to environmental change,” Knapp said. “On the other hand, the technology still ...

If the goal is to restore ecological roles, not to perfectly recreate extinct genomes, then these animals may still serve important functions. But it also means we must be precise in our language.

To breathless media coverage, a company called Colossal Biosciences now claims to have produced three genetically engineered ...