Conservation genomics is a bold new tool for protecting life on earth, but it will take all of us to slow the extinction ...
Colossal Biosciences, the Dallas, Texas company looking to 'de-extinct' the woolly mammoth is adding an African antelope to its projects.
Long after an animal’s soft tissues have vanished, its skull still carries a blueprint of how it sensed the world. For extinct mammals, those bony clues now show that noses were not just prominent ...
Colossal, the company that brought back the dire wolf and aims to "de-extinct" the woolly mammoth and dodo bird, announced its next project: southern Africa's extinct bluebuck.
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 1938, zoologist Ellis Le Geyt Troughton mourned that Australia’s “gentle and specialized creatures” were “unable to cope with changed conditions and introduced enemies”. The role of these “enemies” ...
You are probably familiar with kangaroos. Wallabies, too, and most likely quokkas as well. Less famous are their small, endangered cousins, the bettongs. These little marsupials love to dig and have a ...
We rely on smell more than most people may realize. Across mammals, scent guides feeding, warns of danger, and shapes social behavior. A new international study shows that this vital sense leaves a ...
Humans wiped out the bluebuck in Africa around 200 years ago. Bringing it back is both ethically and technologically challenging.
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