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Should we be bringing back extinct species? Ethical concerns raised after dire wolf allegedly resurrected
The recent claim the long extinct dire wolf was resurrected made headlines around the world. But bioethicists and ecologists ...
Is this really a dire wolf? Here’s how the ‘de-extinct’ pups compare to the real thing.
The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...
After Dire Wolves Are Resurrected, Trump Administration Says U.S. Endangered Species List Should 'Go Extinct'
After biotechnology and genetic engineering company Colossal Biosciences said it successfully created three dire wolf puppies earlier this week, the Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum shared his ...
Were dinosaurs headed for extinction even before massive asteroid strike? Scientists offer new clues
An analysis of North America’s fossil record for the 18 million years before dinosaurs disappeared suggests the prehistoric ...
The Great Dinosaur Deception: Fossil Gaps Rewrite Extinction History
Dinosaurs may not have been declining before the asteroid impact after all – new research shows that the apparent drop in ...
Extinctions of Australian mammals have long been blamed on foxes and cats—but where's the evidence?
In 1938, zoologist Ellis Le Geyt Troughton mourned that Australia's "gentle and specialized creatures" were "unable to cope ...
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US company resurrects the extinct dire wolf, or some version of it
The company is calling them dire wolves and is referring to this as the world's first successfully "de-extincted" animal. The ...
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Extinctions of Australian mammals have long been blamed on foxes and cats – but where’s the evidence?
The role of these “enemies” – namely, foxes and feral cats – in driving dozens of Australia’s animals towards extinction ... in the same way as do North American and Middle Eastern ...