If all goes to plan, Ben Lamm’s next Christmas card to his friends will be of him posing with a woolly mammoth and a dodo. Lamm, 43, is the billionaire entrepreneur who founded Colossal Biosciences, a ...

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 ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

De-extinction, as it’s been termed, hasn’t happened in over 3 billion years of life on Earth, so it will be an epic event if and when it happens. It can potentially be done using eggs and sperm that ...

An Instagram post about the last two northern white rhinos references a scenario conservationists have warned us about for ...

The Texas entrepreneur working to bring back the woolly mammoth has added a new species to his revival list: the dodo. Recreating this flightless bird, a symbol of human-caused extinction, is a chance ...

In 2025, the world marked another sad milestone in the ongoing loss of biodiversity: multiple species long missing from their ...

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