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Filmmaker Peter Jackson's fascination with a large extinct New Zealand bird has led to an unusual partnership with a biotech ...
The conodont Wurmiella excavata was said to have had razor-sharp structures that processed prey from left to right, rather ...
“Some of those iconic species that feature in our tribal mythology, our storytelling, are very near and dear to us,” says ...
The dire wolf went extinct around 10,000 years ago. The recent claim that a U.S. biotechnology company resurrected the long-extinct dire wolf through genetic engineering seemed to shock the ...
Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...
Unlike body fossils such as bones and teeth, these trace fossils indicate the daily activities of long-extinct animals, according to the scientists. To create 3D models of the tracks, ...
But after the animals were returned to a refuge in central Oman in 1982, almost all were wiped out by poachers. “We had the animals, and we put them back, and the world wasn’t ready,” says Pimm.
On April 7, Colossal Biosciences announced what they called the “world’s first de-extinction,” the births of three dire wolves, extinct animals that lived during the ice ages of the Pleistocene.
While all types of ancient remains are valuable to science, teeth— protected by enamel, the hardest substance in the body—are more likely to survive the ravages of time, pressure, and erosion. In fact ...
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