While the science of doing this may not be as exciting as the genetic engineering of Colossal Biosciences, it will be easier ...

Imagine standing in a place where time folds in on itself—a vast landscape of mountains, valleys, forests, and rivers. Now ...

The American genetic engineering firm Colossal Biosciences recently announced to much fanfare it had "de-extincted" the dire ...

The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...

A bioscience company’s announcement this week that it’s brought back long-extinct dire wolves raised a lot of eyebrows. But ...

Most professional biologists, myself included, do not think they have brought dire wolves back from extinction by any ...

Long before today’s slow-moving tree dwellers, sloths were towering giants. In this episode, we look back at the age of the giant ground sloth - massive creatures that once roamed the Americas, ...

Ethicists and conservationists appear to be divided over what the purpose of bringing back extinct species should be – and whether it matters.

Startup Colossal Biosciences has edited the DNA of a gray wolf to produce what it says is a de-extincted animal. Does that ...

They patrolled North America hunting giant ground sloths, bison, and other megafauna until about ... Until about six months ...

New research painted a more accurate picture of the megafauna that spread widely around the Americas before they went extinct.