"We sequenced the dunnart's genome and compared that genetic code to our extinct species, we then overlapped them and found everywhere where it was different," says Pask. However, knowing an ...

The dire wolf went extinct around 10,000 years ago. The recent claim that a U.S. biotechnology company resurrected the long-extinct dire wolf through genetic engineering seemed to shock the ...

Colossal Biosciences CEO Ben Lamm defended the resurrection of the extinct species in an appearance on Monday’s edition of conservative commentator Joe Rogan’s podcast. Rogan called it “real ...

(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 ...

Ethicists and conservationists appear to be divided on attempts to bring back extinct species – and whether the efforts matter. A company owned by a wealthy businessman re-creates an extinct ...

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 ...

The once-extinct dire wolf species, popularized in HBO's "Game of Thrones," has been brought back. But were Colossal Biosciences scientists behind the de-extinction so preoccupied with whether or ...

“All you can do now is make something look superficially like something else"— not fully revive extinct species, said Vincent Lynch, a biologist at the University at Buffalo who was not ...

Dire wolves went extinct about 13,000 years ago. Scientists believe incoming dog-like species and wolves may have out-competed dire wolves, or spread diseases that hurt them, according to National ...