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Frozen Genes or Final Days? Inside the Race to Rebuild a Species

An Instagram post about the last two northern white rhinos references a scenario conservationists have warned us about for ...
Forbes

Should We De-Extinct The Woolly Mammoth? No, Save The Elephants

Should we bring back extinct animals? Wrong question. Why are we bringing back extinct animals when we have animals, plants, and fungi that are going extinct now, daily? By 2050, up to ...
Fast Company

Is ‘de-extinction’ here? How gene editing can help endangered species

The dire wolf, a large, wolflike species that went extinct about 12,000 years ago, has been in the news after biotech company Colossal claimed to have resurrected it using cloning and gene-editing ...

Lonely George the tree snail dies, and a species goes extinct

One famous snail’s death highlights the plight faced by diverse Hawaiian snails, of which there were once hundreds of species ...
Forbes

Meet 4 ‘Extinct’ Animals That Were Miraculously Rediscovered (Hint: One Was An Ancient Fish Found In A Fishing Net In 1938)

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

This Frozen Mammoth Changed What Scientists Thought About Ancient RNA

Ancient DNA has been pulled from a permafrost-preserved woolly mammoth found in Siberia, and scientists are thrilled. They ...
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Three Andean condor chicks hatch in Colombia as species nears local extinction

By Mongabay.com Since July 2024, three Andean condor chicks have hatched at an artificial incubation program located near ...