Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

Colossal Biosciences, the genetic engineering company working to bring back the woolly mammoth, has actually already brought back one of its extinct Ice Age cohabitants: the dire wolf. The Dallas, ...

A new modeling study suggests that greater connectivity between groups may have given Homo sapiens the edge over Neanderthals ...

Extinction is a part of nature. Of the five billion species that have existed on Earth, 99.9 per cent have vanished. The Late Devonian extinction, nearly four hundred million years ago, annihilated ...

DALLAS – The scientists at Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences, the company that brought us modern-day dire wolves, do not tire of comparisons to the fictional bioengineering firm in "Jurassic Park," ...

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Colossal Biosciences, the world’s only de-extinction company, today announces the rebirth of the once extinct dire wolf, the world’s first successfully de-extincted animal.

A bold scientific claim has reignited debate in the research community after a biotechnology company announced it had effectively brought the extinct dire wolf back to life. The species, which ...

Researchers are moving DNA information from past species to living ones. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox ...