A biotechnology company whose goal is to bring back the wooly mammoth says its recent small step is big news. Colossal ...

What the dodo symbolizes has changed over time. It has been, variously, a parable, a joke and a warning. When we see it as an ...

The extinction patterns observed at the end of the last ice age offer clues about which species are most vulnerable today.

A researcher with UW collaborated on the project to come up with the most precise predictive Ice Age model to date.

A US biotech company has genetically modified mice to have traits from the extinct woolly mammoth. Researchers at Colossal ...

Scientists engineered woolly mice to study mammoth traits, raising ethical and ecological concerns about de-extinction.

We are researching the cause of megafaunal extinction in the last major extinction event. Hundreds of large mammal species disappeared during the transition from the last glaciation to the present ...

Boasting majestic ridged horns that are prized in Chinese medicine, it was once hunted to the brink of extinction ... sabre-toothed tiger back in the Ice Age—are found in Kazakhstan.

Scientists are uncertain whether the warming climate is to blame for the extinction at the end of the last ice age. At the time, modern humans were rapidly spreading around the globe and some ...

De-extinction would need to go beyond modifying an existing ... epigenetic and behavioral traits that allowed mammoths to ...

Extinction is typically for good ... which helped it survive Earth’s last ice age. Both traits are the result of sophisticated gene editing that Colossal’s scientists hope will result in ...

Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based company, genetically engineered a woolly mouse, marking an achievement toward its goal of ...