According to Prof Pask, one of the key goals of Colossal Biosciences in bringing back extinct species would be to reintroduce them to aid in re-balancing the natural ecosystem and conserving the ...

Colossal Biosciences, the company which bills itself as the world’s first de-extinction company, recently announced the de-extinction of the dire wolf, a Pleistocene animal which went extinct about 12 ...

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 ...

The dire wolf which has been extinct from Earth for more than 12,000 years has returned, but this time it is neither fiction nor CGI special effects. Courtesy of the groundbreaking efforts of biotech ...

You might think that bringing an animal back from extinction is a pipe dream, but one company is getting closer to bringing ...

A plan to genetically engineer a version of the dodo, a giant flightless bird that disappeared 400 years ago and became the poster child for extinction, has made some headway, according to Texas-based ...

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India primarily focused on reintroduction of Asiatic Cheetah, which was declared extinct in 1952 De-extinction measures would ...

Winter is coming ... and so are the dire wolves. The large canines — best known for being featured in the HBO series "Game of Thrones" — went extinct nearly 13,000 years ago. But they're now making a ...

A British biologist named John Gurdon won a Nobel Prize for discovering that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become “pluripotent.” That means mature cells can be converted into stem cells, so ...