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

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 ...

When news broke that Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-based biotechnology company, had resurrected three extinct dire wolves, the internet reacted with awe.It is a species that last roamed the earth ...

Researchers said the rare species “abruptly disappeared” from the region following an El Niño event. Now it is thriving.

“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.

On April 7, Colossal Biosciences announced what they called the “world’s first de-extinction,” the births of three dire wolves, extinct animals that lived during the ice ages of the Pleistocene.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...