Colossal Biosciences leads efforts on woolly mammoth, dodo, Tasmanian tiger. $435 million funding supports decade-long de-extinction plans. The idea of bringing extinct species back to life is inching ...

The age of de-extinction may soon be a reality. Advances in genetic engineering and synthetic biology are making resurrecting animals once lost to this world a tangible prospect. The organizations ...

Asteroid impact sulfur release less lethal in dinosaur extinction Date: January 16, 2025 Source: Vrije Universiteit Brussel Summary: Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that ...

Bad Bunny’s latest album amplifies the voices of Puerto Rico’s coquí and endangered crested toad, highlighting the urgent need to protect the island’s fragile ecosystems and cultural ...

Gland, Switzerland, 8 January 2025 (IUCN) – The largest global assessment of freshwater animals on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ to date has revealed that 24% of the world’s freshwater fish ...

The sixth extinction, also known as the Anthropocene extinction, refers to the ongoing, unprecedented loss of species. Unlike previous mass extinction events in Earth’s history, which were driven by ...

came together in a December technical report to argue that ongoing work on mirror bacteria could trigger a mass extinction. The catastrophe it warns about is plausible, if mind-bending.