Do you think you could live alongside dodos and woolly mammoths? Colossal Biosciences thinks you can. The biotech company, which claims it recently resurrected the dire wolf, focuses on “de-extinction ...

As the Trump administration slashes funding for health, energy and climate research, there’s one science the administration is promoting: de-extinction. Earlier this month, a biotechnology company ...

Durrell Kapan propped himself on his elbows to inspect a shrubby plant. He searched for a sign that a pioneering experiment to restore something missing from the coastal dunes in San Francisco was ...

Humans have long tinkered with the evolutionary trajectories of other species. Thousands of years ago we tamed wolves into dogs and transformed a wild grass into the agricultural wonder wheat. Within ...

A long-lost Bolivian killifish has been found alive, revealing a globally important hotspot for seasonal killifish diversity at risk from deforestation. Researchers have confirmed the rediscovery of ...

In 2008, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) declared the Javan tiger, a subspecies of the Sumatran tiger, extinct. More than 20 years later, a conservationist living on the ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...

When the big asteroid hit Mexico 66 million years ago, it set off wildfires, tsunamis and massive clouds of dust that darkened the skies, killed much of Earth’s plant life and triggered a chain of ...

A new billionaire from efforts to bring back the woolly mammoth: “What we’re excited about is that we are solving hard problems,” said Colossal Biosciences' cofounder and CEO Ben Lamm. Colossal ...