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

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

Colossal Biosciences, an American biotechnology company, announced the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf, a prehistoric wolf ...

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

The cover of Time Magazine’s May edition features a striking image of a large, white wolf. Above it, the word “extinct” in ...

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

The attempted creation of dire wolves could undermine conservation efforts by making people think extinct species can be ...

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 ...

Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences had the world howling about dire wolves. But for ethicists, the question is our ...

Colossal Biosciences' claim to have achieved the 'de-extinction' of the dire wolf has been questioned by geneticists, but the ...

Over the past week, the media have been inundated with news of the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus)—a species that went extinct about 13,000 years ago. The breakthrough has been ...

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