In Aotearoa New Zealand, hapori Maori (tribal groups) are the kaitiaki (guardians) of many threatened taonga (treasured) ...

A museum specimen of the extinct huia. Wikimedia Commons/Auckland Museum collection , CC BY-SA The recent announcement of the ...

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Although some biologists have since poured cold water on the actual science behind the dire wolf’s revival, there’s now talk ...

With this breakthrough, humans are tampering with evolution beyond its historical use of artificial selection, or breeding ...

Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based biotech company, made headlines this April after falsely claiming to resurrect the ...

We have brilliant scientists using a brilliant molecular technique to carry out ill-conceived and misguided experiments.

Earlier this year, to breathless media coverage, a company called Colossal Biosciences claimed to have produced three genetically engineered pups of the long-extinct dire wolf. Scientific criticism ...

Most people know of dire wolves from “Game of Thrones.” The species isn’t actually fictional, but it has been extinct for ...

When one company proclaimed it had brought back the dire wolf, the response was joyous. But de-extinction remains a dangerous ...

Scientific criticism followed fast to the news that a company called Colossal had produced three genetically engineered dire ...