Many huge animals went extinct surprisingly recently. When they died, their ecological role was lost with them.

Dire wolves - the legendary creatures that once roamed prehistoric landscapes, only existed in the imaginations of storytellers - until now.

The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...

Colossal Biosciences, an American biotechnology company, announced the "de-extinction ... wolf went extinct. The leading hypothesis is that it preyed on the giant plant-eating mammals found ...

The spurious idea of 'de-extinction' offers us the illusion of undoing one of the great catastrophes of our own era ...

WHO SAYS THERE’S no good news? Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-based company, announced the birth of three dire wolf pups that represent the world’s first “de-extinction.” ...

The animal thrived in Ireland but was not exclusively Irish, ranging across Europe to western Siberia for some 400,000 years during the Pleistocene. Nor was it an elk; it was a giant deer ...