Throughout my career, I’ve had the extraordinary privilege of literally saving species—through food. As a specialist in comparative animal nutrition, I’ve spent decades working at the intersection of ...

The Appendices of the Convention provide the lists of wild species that are protected by the Convention. In the introductory text here we should add : Appendix I includes wild flora species and ...

This groundbreaking achievement marks the first de-extinction of a species, reviving the dire wolf after 12,500 years. The pups exhibit distinctive features of the extinct creature, opening doors ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran orangutan, Bornean orangutan, gorilla, bonobo, and chimpanzee. Areas of ...

Earlier this week, the Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences announced that it has successfully resurrected the dire wolf, a canine species that once roamed North America and went extinct over 12,500 ...

Wildfires 'could spell the end' for rare species such as water voles and hen harriers. A pair of critically endangered cotton-top tamarins are born at a zoo in Hampshire. The project hopes to stop ...

We, quite rightly, worry about how the activities of humans are leading to the extinction of animal species alive today. However, extinction is not a modern phenomenon. All through geologic time there ...

But strictly speaking, the creatures aren’t dire wolves, nor do they represent the first species to be brought back. And that is not to take away one iota of interest from the firm’s achievement, nor ...

The red wolf (Canis rufus) is the most endangered wolf species in the world.Only 15 to 17 red wolves remain in the wild in eastern North Carolina and 251 red wolves live in captivity, according to ...

For the first time ever, scientists say they have made a species de-extinct, bringing the dire wolf back into the world thousands of years after it died off. Colossal Biosciences, a company based ...

(NEXSTAR) — This week, a Texas-based biosciences company, which aims to “de-extinct” animal species of the past (and ones that will go extinct in the future), said it managed to engineer ...

and a wonderful example of the power of biotechnology to protect species, both extant and extinct,” Mason said. This story first appeared in the New York Post and was republished with permission.