Scientists revisited tracks made by a shorebird, a lizard, a cat-like predator and some sort of large herbivore at what is ...

Colossal Biosciences' claim to have achieved the 'de-extinction' of the dire wolf has been questioned by geneticists, but the ...

Marvel at a whirlwind tour through history’s weirdest and wackiest jobs, enjoy being swept away to an adventure in which ...

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

One answer might be that, because long-extinct species pose the hardest biological challenges, working on de-extinction in these animals pushes scientists to develop cutting-edge genetic ...

Amid news that has drawn repeated comparisons to a 30-year-old sci-fi book and film franchise ... The longerm captivity of ...

Some question whether the pups are really dire wolves, or just genetically tweaked gray wolves. But the technology could be used to help at-risk animals.

Cloning has been used to briefly bring back the pyrenean ibex , which went extinct in 2000. In 2003, a Spanish team brought a cloned calf to term, but the animal died a few minutes after birth.

What we’re really looking at, it seems, are gray wolves modified to be dire wolves of George R.R. Martin’s books rather ... ecological roles of animals that have been extinct for thousands ...

It's a fierce, majestic beast that disappeared thousands of years ago, save for artistic renderings in books and on screen ... back mammoths and other extinct animals. (Roselle Chen/Reuters ...

Dire wolves went extinct roughly 13,000 years ago ... dire wolf by George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" fantasy book series, the basis for HBO's TV series "Game of Thrones." ...