Operators of a wildlife-monitoring camera system got a rare treat earlier this month when a California condor stopped to ...

The famed Lord of the Rings director has donated his money and his bones to make a legend come to life with Colossal Biosciences.

Colossal Biosciences, an American biotechnology company, announced the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf, a prehistoric wolf species that died out more than 10,000 years ago, in April 2025. Three ...

Earlier this week, Colossal Biosciences claimed that they’d brought the dire wolf back from extinction after some 12,000 years. They debuted photos of five-month-old Romulus and Remus, two ...

Animals that birth de-extinct species could experience miscarriage, stillbirth, early death and possible pain, suggested Jay Odenbaugh, a professor of philosophy at Lewis & Clark College in ...

“The Endangered Species List has become like the Hotel California: once a species enters, they never leave. In fact, 97 percent of species that are added to the endangered list remain there.

To date, there has only been one successful attempt to bring a species back from extinction, and it was a short-lived success. Celia, the last living Pyrenean Ibex , a subspecies of wild mountain ...

In 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature published a report that focused on de-extinction and defined it as “bringing back a proxy of an extinct species that resembles it in ...

The Trump administration’s attempt to weaken the Endangered Species Act is easy to criticize. This month, it proposed a rule that would limit what constitutes “harm” under the law to only ...

Some extinct animals also performed vital services in their ecosystems, which might benefit from their return. Siberia, for example, was home 12,000 years ago to mammoths and other big grazing ...

A proposed change to the Endangered Species Act has local environmental groups worried. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are looking to repeal ...