Modern genetic research is “pushing the boundaries of what’s possible” by bringing extinct animals back to life, but could it ...

What if the past was not really gone forever? Creatures like the saber toothed tiger, the woolly mammoth, and the dodo bird once roamed Earth, but are now classified as extinct. In many cases, human ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...

When serial entrepreneur and billionaire Ben Lamm launched the Texas de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences, skeptics were plentiful. The idea of resurrecting extinct species seemed to many like ...

Knoepfler is STAT’s Lab Dish columnist and a professor of cell biology and human anatomy at UC Davis School of Medicine. De-extinction firm Colossal Biosciences announced Tuesday that it was acquiring ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Colossal isn’t ‘bringing back’ lost species. But it might be working on something ‘useful.’ Colossal isn’t ‘bringing back’ lost species. But it might be working on something ‘useful.’ Colossal’s ...