When Sudan the white rhino was put down by his carers earlier this year, it confirmed the extinction of one of the savannah’s most iconic subspecies. Despite decades of effort from conservationists, ...

The term “de-extinction” often conjures images of Jurassic Park-style genetic manipulation, complete with ethical dilemmas and ecological chaos. But the reality of functional de-extinction—the ...

Last year, hiking in Morocco’s eastern Atlas Mountains, I found an ammonite, a fossil of those spiral-shape cephalopods that to many symbolize paleontology itself. The fossilization process had turned ...

After more than 12,000 years, dire wolves are back. On April 8, 2025, Colossal Biosciences announced the birth of three healthy dire wolf pups, marking the world’s first successful de-extinction of a ...

Colossal Biosciences aims to rewrite history as they work to resurrect extinct species – and their sights are set on the woolly mammoth and the dodo. Earlier this year, Colossal – co-founded by Ben ...

"We should never forget that it is these personal struggles that make up the extinction process ... Extinction is not a cold calculus about the numbers of breeding females and the degree of genetic ...