Before the 20th century, the South African plains were home to a unique species of zebra that was brutally hunted to ...

It’s forcing the human race into what evolutionary biologists call a “bottleneck” — a period of rapid pressure that threatens cultures, customs and peoples with extinction. When college ...

The story so far: On April 7, a biotechnology company in Texas, U.S., named Colossal Biosciences announced that it had “resurrected” a dire wolf, a large predator that went extinct more than ...

The Idaho Fish and Game Commission held a special meeting via conference call on April 15th. At their April 15, 2025 meeting, the Idaho Fish and Game Commission rescinded their Snake River closure ...

29, 2023. The closure was put into place in response to the detection of quagga mussels by the Idaho State Department of Agriculture in a 6-mile stretch of the Snake River in September 2023.

Officials put the order in place in a six-mile stretch of the Snake River after finding quagga mussels in September 2023. Decontamination stations remain in place. Sensitive documents, including ...

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 ...

These animals have also been hit hard by humans, and many species went extinct in the past few tens of thousands of years. Each time our ancestors colonised new continents as they spread around ...

Why dire wolves went extinct around 13,000 years ago is also largely unknown beyond the disappearance of their preferred prey. Ancient DNA evidence hints that dire wolves didn’t interbreed with ...

Colossal Biosciences thinks you can. The biotech company, which claims it recently resurrected the dire wolf, focuses on “de-extinction,” or attempting to bring extinct animals back from oblivion.

Colossal Biosciences, an American biotechnology company, announced the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf, a prehistoric wolf species that died out more than 10,000 years ago, in April 2025.

They whimper, drink from baby bottles and crawl oh so tentatively—they look like cute white puppies, not the fruit of a daring project to resuscitate an extinct species. A Texas startup called ...