In the realm of scientific innovation, few endeavours capture the imagination quite like the quest to bring extinct species back to life. Among ...

The world is witnessing the greatest biodiversity loss in history, preserving the millions of threatened creatures that ...

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

Learn how one company’s effort to bring back the Ice Age creature from extinction takes a key first step.

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

The dodo could, similarly, resume its vital role in seed dispersal ... collaborating on projects that involve recreating ...

Cloning the mammoth is impossible. What is left of the giant mammal is found in fragments, echoes of the past. Instead of a ...

The last woolly mammoth died on a remote island in the Arctic Ocean around 3,500 years ago, and the idea of bringing them back is nothing new. There is a joke among science journalists that ...

A US biotech company has genetically modified mice to have traits from the extinct woolly mammoth. Researchers at Colossal ...

In 2003, scientists announced they had birthed a Pyrenean ibex, which died out in 2000, by producing a clone from preserved ... the team is also working on the dodo and the Tasmanian tiger.

Today, the gene jockeys at Colossal Biosciences introduced us to the woolly mouse, a extra-bushy rodent they say is the first ...