Colossal, cofounded by entrepreneur Ben Lamm and geneticist George Church in 2021, has pledged, to much fanfare, to bring ...

Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless, found by 17th ...

This poor old bird is a dodo. It once lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. And it's almost certainly the first animal species that human beings actually exterminated in historic ...

One of the most infamous cautionary tales of humanity's follies, the reasons behind the extinction of the dodo are even more ...

Colossal Biosciences unveiled plans in 2021 to revive the woolly mammoth - and later the dodo bird - attracting investors, headlines and critics alike. The Texas-based biotech company has since ...

The CEO of Colossal, a startup that aims to use genetic editing techniques to bring back extinct species, including the wooly mammoth, assured audiences at SXSW that the company has no plans to ...

Colossal Biosciences, known for its outlandish goal to resurrect the woolly mammoth by 2028, is claiming steady progress. Its evidence: genetically engineering mice to have mammoth-like fur.

Checkout this crazy chicken footage after it was announced that scientists at NYU Langone are using genetic engineering to help protect endangered birds. By modifying reproductive cells from domestic ...