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 ...

announcing in March 2024 that it has succeeded in creating iPS cells from the Asian elephant, which is genetically most similar to the woolly mammoth. Science news site Live Science has compiled a ...

A company is trying to recreate long-extinct animals. In recent months, they’ve created woolly mammoth-like mice and grey wolf pups with dire wolf traits. However, some say their claims of ...

The Earth’s historical past was home to some of the most massive and terrifying creatures that reigned as the topmost frightening predators of the land, some of which reached sizes and developed ...

“We see no possible way this could go wrong,” wrote the Jurassic World account on X, in tongue-in-cheek response to the news. Most experts USA TODAY spoke with agreed that attempts to de-extinct ...

In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...

Their names are Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi, and they’re the first dire wolves to walk the Earth in over 10,000 years — or so one biotech company and a flurry of recent headlines say. On April 7, ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...