Chief executive Ben Lamm says the hope is for a moa thundering through New Zealand bush within 10 years. He says while it's not as hard as some of their projects, it's still difficult because they don ...

Scientists are in heated debate over whether to resurrect the dodo, the flightless bird extinct for over 300 years.

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We tour the laboratories and headquarters of Colossal Biosciences, the company that brought back the dire wolf and seeks to ...

According to Prof Pask, one of the key goals of Colossal Biosciences in bringing back extinct species would be to reintroduce ...

The quest for dodo’s de-extinction has gathered steam again. Colossal Biosciences has announced a significant breakthrough in its attempts to bring the flightless bird back to life, 300 years after it ...

The world's oldest DNA comes from a 2.4 million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland. Will scientists eventually sequence even older DNA?

Haast’s eagle, with a 3-meter wingspan and talons the size of a tiger’s paws, once ruled New Zealand’s skies by hunting ...

While many plants and animals are lost to us forever, this little bird has just been very good at hiding. The night parrot ...

You might think that bringing an animal back from extinction is a pipe dream, but one company is getting closer to bringing ...

The slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) has been officially declared extinct by the International Union for ...

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