A U.S. bioengineering company wants to genetically re-create the dodo, the woolly mammoth and the Tasmanian tiger. The chief scientist behind these “de-extinction” efforts says bringing back ...
It's been nearly 40 years since the extinction of Australia's thylacine, known as the Tasmanian tiger, but reported sightings come by the thousands as people across Tasmania tramp through the ...
Tasmanian tigers were hunted to extinction decades ago, but a recent scientific breakthrough has raised hope that the animal ...
We don’t fully understand how to create an artificial placenta at the moment. We don’t really understand the intricacies of ...
One of the biggest names in Hollywood has formed a new partnership with a CIA-backed genetic engineering company that is working to bring the Tasmanian tiger back from the dead. Re:wild, of which ...
There's the Loch Ness monster in Scotland. And in the Himalayas, there's the yeti, the Abominable Snowman. In Tasmania—a teardrop of an island under the eye of the Australian mainland—there's ...
Scientists have suspected a unique small cat roamed Central and South America for more than a decade, but it took intense ...
A company is at the heart of an evolving science that aims to see ancient animals return in the name of preserving and ...
Tales of bringing back extinct animals are only ever heard of in movies, but now one “de-extinction” company based out of Dallas is making plans to open up a location in North Dakota with ...
The idea of scientists bringing pre-historic creatures back to life with some clever DNA trickery might sound familiar to fans of the 1993 Hollywood blockbuster Jurassic Park. But for Colossal ...
Humans have long tinkered with the evolutionary trajectories of other species. Thousands of years ago we tamed wolves into dogs and transformed a wild grass into the agricultural wonder wheat.
It's been nearly 40 years since the extinction of Australia's thylacine, known as the Tasmanian tiger, but reported sightings come by the thousands as people across Tasmania tramp through the ...