Fifty thousand years ago, North America was home to towering giants. Mammoths roamed the tundra, saber-toothed cats hunted in ...

The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...

Looking for blind cavefish in San Luis Potosí, biologist Luis Espinasa and his team accidentally found the remains of giant ...

The first major frontier of “de-extinction” has just been crossed. Earlier today, the company Colossal Biosciences reported ...

Earlier this week, we learned that a company called Colossal Biosciences managed to — steel yourself for this — revived dire ...

Colossal Bioscience says it has “de-extincted” the dire wolf, but other scientists disagree and say more important ...

“The de-extinction of the dire wolf and an end-to-end system for de-extinction is transformative and heralds an entirely new ...

Many species of megafauna became extinct near the time dire wolves became extinct. Phillips said the lack of prey is likely a factor in the extinction of dire wolves. Climate change and possibly ...

and other megafauna until about the end of the last ice age. Then they disappeared and their unique contribution to the North ...