blood and frozen sperm samples to produce a live northern white rhino birth—and maybe even repopulate the entire subspecies. If they succeed, it will be the first time a virtually extinct mammal ...

Imagine standing in front of a gentle giant whose kind once roamed vast African plains in great numbers, only to realize you ...

From dire wolves to woolly mammoths, the idea of resurrecting extinct species has captured the public imagination. Colossal ...

and both could benefit from the same advances in genome engineering that are required to make de-extinction a reality. At the end of last year, a northern white rhino that lived at the San Diego ...

Numbers of northern white rhinos were so low (today ... “During the Idi Amin days, the elephants were almost poached to extinction; the rhino, sadly, was actually poached to extinction ...

The Northern White Rhino was one of the most iconic species ... This snail was the first land snail ever recorded in Hawaii, so its extinction was a full-circle moment, but not in a good way.

Thanks to the work from a Texas-based biotech and engineering company, the dire wolf is back. Learn all about the famous animal seen in ‘Game of Thrones.’ ...

raising awareness of “martyr” species – like the northern white rhino and the passenger pigeon – helps underline the argument in favour of protecting current species. Framing extinction as ...