These include animals, such as amphibians ... the po'ouli was removed from the endangered species list and recommended for extinct status. The sharp-snouted day frog was another type of water ...

Reintroduction of captive-bred animals has had mixed success. This California butterfly lost habitat to grazing and drought and is considered to be extinct. The last live one was seen in the wild ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. A naked mole rat. That was photographer Joel Sartore’s first model in 2006 when he began making studio portraits of ...

Bringing the woolly mammoth back to life is no easy task. But for Ben Lamm, CEO of Colossal Biosciences, the stress of the ...

A species that was once declared extinct is making a comeback. ABC Mildura-Swan Hill News reports how the olive perchlet — a fish in Victoria, Australia that once thought to have gone the way of ...

Eventually, it hopes to bring back other extinct species such as the dodo ... and their survival rate has been comparable to regular mice. The animals will live out their natural life span ...

Since then, the company has focused on identifying key traits of extinct animals by studying ancient DNA, with a goal to genetically “engineer them into living animals,” said CEO Ben Lamm.

A major review of over 67,000 animal species has found that while the natural world continues to face a biodiversity crisis, targeted conservation efforts are helping bring many species back from the ...