There are so many animals that have gone extinct through the ages that we’re choosing to focus just on creatures that went extinct relatively recently: from 1800 onward. So even though we’ll ...

Dinosaurs had been gone for a very long time by then ... examines the capacity of science to bring back extinct animals. UC Santa Cruz Humans have long tinkered with life—what’s the most ...

After biotechnology and genetic engineering company Colossal Biosciences said it successfully created three dire wolf puppies ...

Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound — that’s a sebecid. Standing tall, with some species reaching 20 feet in length, sebecids were top predators until they went extinct during the Miocene.

The internet is currently abuzz with talk of dire wolves – an extinct species of prehistoric wolf that used to roam North ...

Dire wolves, made famous by “Game of Thrones,” went extinct some 13,000 years ago. Now, researchers have bred gray-wolf pups that carry genes of their ancient cousins. By Carl Zimmer Carl ...

Biotech company Colossal Biosciences said it has brought back the dire wolf, an animal that went extinct 10,000 years ago, ...

However, experts have noted that the puppies have important ... what this obstacle is in living frogs before we can go back to the extinct animal's DNA," says Archer. Fine Art/Getty Images ...

The dire wolf went extinct ... the animals would be kept and if they could ever survive in the wild. "All claims of de-extinction are the invocation of a metaphor, and what they have produced ...

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

This species is the first and only one to have gone extinct twice, highlighting that de-extinction isn't so simple.