This week, scientists famous for creating ‘woolly mice’ claimed to have performed another genetic feat and de-extincted a giant wolf species from 10,000 years ago. Genetic engineering company Colossal ...

(CNN) — No species lasts forever — extinction is part of the evolution of life. But at least five times, a biological catastrophe has engulfed the planet, killing off the vast majority of species from ...

New research finds extinction rates have been declining for a century, challenging assumptions of an ongoing mass extinction.

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. Within ...

The end-Triassic extinction, which happened 201 million years ago, was Earth’s third most severe extinction event since the dawn of animal life. Like today, CO 2 rise and global warming were present, ...

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 ...

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