Hidden away among the unexplored limestone hills of Cambodia are a series of karst formations. These uncharted caves, ...

In early April, the world woke up to headlines sounding like a cross between “Jurassic Park” and “Game of Thrones”: Colossal ...

The dire wolf—dire is from the Latin word for “terrible,” a reference to their presume ferocity—once roamed America from South America to Canada and had been extinct since around 10,000 B ...

While there are plenty of conservation efforts and community love for cute marsupials like the western ringtail possum, ...

When one company proclaimed it had brought back the dire wolf, the response was joyous. But de-extinction remains a dangerous fantasy. By Brooke Jarvis Brooke Jarvis is a contributing writer for ...

Australia is home to more than 60 species of carnivorous marsupials in the family Dasyuridae. Almost a quarter of those have ...

From an Australian frog that swallowed its own eggs to woolly mammoths, scientists could soon bring back long-lost species from the dead.

Colossal Biosciences claims it has revived an extinct species, but scientists outside the company are skeptical. Somewhere in the northern US, drones fly over a 2,000-acre preserve, protected by a ...

The solution: experts want to reintroduce the lynx to Britain, a big cat and apex predator that was hunted to extinction ...

But none is more wrong-headed–or cynical—than using those cute genetically engineered “dire wolf” pups to distract from the urgent needs of actual endangered species.

The dire wolf is back. Or is it? Colossal defends its science amid critics No question, the dire wolves born by Colossal Biosciences are super-cute and growing into stately animals.

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 ...