The bioscience startup has attracted billions in investment – and a flurry of criticism, but founder tells the Guardian plans to bring back the woolly mammoth will not be derailed ...

A Texas-based startup has revived the long-extinct dire wolf, but should we take their efforts with a pinch of salt?

View post: Alex Vesia’s Wife Shares Emotional Update Following Daughter’s Death Colossal Biosciences aims to rewrite history as they work to resurrect extinct species – and their sights are set on the ...

SALT LAKE CITY — For centuries, mammoths have fascinated civilizations due to their sheer and lore. Now, scientists are investigating the possibility of introducing mammoth-like species as part of a ...

Woolly mammoths are depicted in this illustration. (Illustration by Mauricio Anton/Wikimedia Commons) Rebecca Woods, University of Toronto In just the last several months, de-extinction — bringing ...

Almost 13,000 years ago, North America underwent drastic changes at a rapid rate. Mammoths, mastodons, giant ground sloths, ...

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Of all the species that humanity has wiped off the face of the earth, the thylacine is possibly the most tragic loss. A wolf-sized marsupial sometimes called the Tasmanian tiger, the thylacine met its ...

Knoepfler is STAT’s Lab Dish columnist and a professor of cell biology and human anatomy at UC Davis School of Medicine. De-extinction firm Colossal Biosciences announced Tuesday that it was acquiring ...