The American genetic engineering firm Colossal Biosciences recently announced to much fanfare it had "de-extincted" the dire ...

Giant kangaroos stayed local, and rapid climate change gradually destroyed their lush rainforest home, leading to extinction.

Giant ground sloths, mammoths and elephants, giant bison and tapirs ... they decimated populations of many marsupials, driving some extinct. Lesser bilbies, desert bandicoots and broad-faced ...

In an exciting moment for scientists and marine lovers alike, the first North Atlantic right whale calf of the 2025 birthing ...

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Dire wolves - the legendary creatures that once roamed prehistoric landscapes, only existed in the imaginations of storytellers - until now.

and many species went extinct in the past few tens of thousands of years. Each time our ancestors colonised new continents as they spread around the world from Africa, large animals were driven to ...

A Texas-based biotech company has brought dire wolves—a species extinct for about 10,000 to 12,500 years—back to life in a landmark genetic engineering project. Colossal Biosciences, known for its ...