We've seen a US company bring the wolf species back from extinction after more than 10,000 years, and now the next animal on a "de-extinction" journey is New Zealand’s moa nunui (giant moa). The team ...

Some residents along the Gulf Coast are creating habitat for the endangered birds on their properties, but development, ...

Colossal Biosciences has announced a partnership to resurrect giant flightless birds called moa. But the company's recent dire wolf project was controversial, and moa are an even more ambitious target ...

SILVER SPRING, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Is bringing a species back from extinction truly possible, or are we simply creating something new in its image? As headlines swirl around the highly publicized ...

The genetic engineering company, Colossal Biosciences, first announced the arrival of the dire wolves in April Colossal Biosciences shared footage from the first face-to-face meeting between its three ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s greatest extinction. Tens of thousands of fossils reveal fully aquatic ...

The sadly now extinct rhino lived on the steppes and tundra of Europe and Asia, living alongside people for thousands of ...

Once upon a time, the likes of Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg imagined a world where scientists on the cutting edge of genetic research pieced together bits of DNA, both ancient and modern, to ...

Discover how the first mass extinction put jawed fishes on the map, species that would later come to dominate animal life on ...

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 ...

A massive ice age wiped out ocean life 445 million years ago, reshaping ecosystems and setting the stage for jawed fish ...