And they're cute as hell." The large wolf species roamed the Americas for more than 100,000 years, before going extinct some 13,000 years ago. It was believed to have hunted large prey like ...

The birth of these pups is not the return of an extinct species. Instead, it’s a demonstration of how far we’ve come in the toolkit of synthetic biology (a field that involves redesigning systems ...

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 ...

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 ...

Florida is unfortunately home to a lot of uninvited guests — especially invasive species. But there might be another way to control their rapidly increasing populations. The U.S. Fish and ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The scientists at a company called Colossal Biosciences have performed a miracle, or in other words – de-extinction – a process which revives an extinct species. What ‘Game of Thrones’ mad ...

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 ...