When Sudan the white rhino was put down by his carers earlier this year, it confirmed the extinction of one of the savannah’s most iconic subspecies. Despite decades of effort from conservationists, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a scientific breakthrough that could forever change how humans interact with our planet, Colossal Biosciences said it has ...

Last year, hiking in Morocco’s eastern Atlas Mountains, I found an ammonite, a fossil of those spiral-shape cephalopods that to many symbolize paleontology itself. The fossilization process had turned ...

The term “de-extinction” often conjures images of Jurassic Park-style genetic manipulation, complete with ethical dilemmas and ecological chaos. But the reality of functional de-extinction—the ...

The history of life on Earth has been punctuated by several mass extinctions, the greatest of these being the Permian-Triassic extinction event, also known as the Great Dying, which occurred 252 ...

After more than 12,000 years, dire wolves are back. On April 8, 2025, Colossal Biosciences announced the birth of three healthy dire wolf pups, marking the world’s first successful de-extinction of a ...

"We should never forget that it is these personal struggles that make up the extinction process ... Extinction is not a cold calculus about the numbers of breeding females and the degree of genetic ...