For decades, scientists treated the end of Earth’s habitability as a problem for the far future, measured in several billion ...
Extinction has always been final — until now. Advances in genome sequencing, cloning, and genetic engineering have given ...
The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...
About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...
A wide range of mammal species are adversely affected, including both endemic (those only found in southern Africa) and non-endemic (those found in other places too) species. They range from less ...
Millions of years of isolation have shaped Australia's extraordinary mammal fauna into species unlike anywhere else in the ...
The real big bird returns. A company that claims to have resurrected the dire wolf has unveiled plans to bring back the moa, a long-extinct bird that once towered over people. The company, Colossal ...
A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...
The last meal eaten by a wolf cub before its demise, some 14,400 years ago, has yielded new insight into how the woolly ...
The term “de-extinction” often conjures images of Jurassic Park-style genetic manipulation, complete with ethical dilemmas and ecological chaos. But the reality of functional de-extinction—the ...
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