Colossal Biosciences is pursuing this plan, having already revived the dire wolf using grey wolf DNA, and is working on projects to bring back the giant moa bird and other extinct animals. In the ...

The world is currently experiencing its sixth mass extinction, with potentially thousands of species lost every year.

A species of huge, flightless bird that once inhabited New Zealand disappeared around 600 years ago, shortly after human ...

The genetics company is teaming up with "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson to resurrect an animal resembling the ...

Along with Colossal Biosciences, the filmmaker is joining an indigenous-centered partnership to resurrect the 12-foot-tall ...

After a controversial project claiming to have resurrected the dire wolf, Colossal Biosciences has now announced plans to ...

The famed Lord of the Rings director has donated his money and his bones to make a legend come to life with Colossal ...

Paul Scofield, a project adviser and senior curator of natural history at the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand, ...

It suggests that, under the right conditions, proteins can outlast DNA by tens of millions of years, preserving biological ...