The age of de-extinction may soon be a reality. Advances in genetic engineering and synthetic biology are making resurrecting animals once lost to this world a tangible prospect. The organizations and ...

The quest for dodo’s de-extinction has gathered steam again. Colossal Biosciences has announced a significant breakthrough in its attempts to bring the flightless bird back to life, 300 years after it ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Colossal Biosciences is now valued at over $10 billion and ...

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...

A magical conservation milestone is unfolding in Brazil's Atlantic Forest, where the vibrant call of red-browed amazons is echoing after decades of silence. Earlier this year, researchers released 20 ...

Dire wolves, the canine companions from Game of Thrones and an extinct species of the real world, are back, but how did they make their return? A new documentary plans to reveal the scientific ...

Colossal Biosciences is working on bringing back a long-dormant animal, and it has found a partner to help. The genetics company is teaming up with "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson to ...

Extinction is a part of nature. Of the five billion species that have existed on Earth, 99.9 per cent have vanished. The Late Devonian extinction, nearly four hundred million years ago, annihilated ...

“We see no possible way this could go wrong,” wrote the Jurassic World account on X, in tongue-in-cheek response to the news. Most experts USA TODAY spoke with agreed that attempts to de-extinct ...

The Trump administration wants to make economic impacts a factor in what was previously a science-based decision on what's ...