The American genetic engineering firm Colossal Biosciences recently announced to much fanfare it had "de-extincted" the dire ...

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

Three unique-looking wolf pups have just been born in an American laboratory. Their special feature? Their DNA combines genes ...

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

Pioneers in the science of "de-extinction," an American company has announced the births of three pups whose genes resemble ...

An in-depth assessment reveals that dozens of giant amphibians died on an ancient floodplain. Around 230 million years ago, ...

Dire wolves, made famous by “Game of Thrones,” went extinct some 13,000 years ago. Now, researchers have bred gray-wolf pups ...

Colossal has previously announced similar projects to genetically alter cells from living species to create animals resembling extinct woolly ... move of how to kill a giant elk or a big deer ...

Australia lost all its large animals, including a giant wombat-relative called diprotodon ... they decimated populations of many marsupials, driving some extinct. Lesser bilbies, desert bandicoots ...

and many species went extinct in the past few tens of thousands of years. Each time our ancestors colonised new continents as they spread around the world from Africa, large animals were driven to ...