A company revealed Monday it’s created the “world’s first de-extinct animals,” two wolf pups genetically modified to resemble extinct dire wolves.

Scientists at Colossal Biosciences revive extinct dire wolves using ancient DNA and CRISPR tech, marking the world's first ...

Prehistoric plant DNA is being dug up from deep below the Arctic to see if it can help modern-day crops cope with the effects of climate change. Researchers from Heriot-Watt University in ...

Colossal Biosciences—the company whose mission is “de-extinction”—has pulled off one of the wildest feats in modern science: ...

In a stunning scientific development, the prehistoric canines made famous in the hit HBO show have been announced as the ...

It is one of the richest burials found in an El Argar, a settlement dating back to 2200 to 1550 B.C.E. (ASOME/Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) (CN) — By analyzing the DNA of ancient Iberians who ...

New wolves with prehistoric traits are being hailed as dire wolves reborn but the science tells a different story.

It’s one of the most fascinatingly species-rich environments in the world, and new research published in the journal Science ...

Colossal Biosciences announces the birth of 3 dire wolf pups, a major breakthrough in de-extinction technology, using ancient DNA and gene editing.

combine results from two newly discovered prehistoric palm fossils with DNA from global palm collections to gain new insights into the origins of biodiversity in one of the most species-rich ...

The new findings contradict previous assertions that Ashkenazi mitochondrial lineages originated in the Near East, or from mass conversions to Judaism in the Khazar kingdom, an empire in the north ...

A Sweden-born scientist who resides in Leipzig, Germany, has been awarded Monday the 2022 Medicine Nobel Prize for his findings on prehistoric DNA. Svante Pääbo, currently aged 67, discovered in ...