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These 23 Animals Have Gone Extinct in the Past 150 Years

Thought to be extinct in the wild, the Spix Macaw currently exists in captivity with their numbers in the dismally low 60 to ...
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When Did Some Ancient Extinct Species Return To The Sea? Machine Learning Helps Find The Answer

When the ancestors of terrestrial life on Earth crawled or slithered out of the sea, they formed the starting point for many ...
Phys.org

Can we really resurrect extinct animals, or are we just creating hi-tech lookalikes?

From dire wolves to woolly mammoths, the idea of resurrecting extinct species has captured the public imagination. Colossal Biosciences, the Dallas-based biotech company leading the charge, has made ...
AOL

32 Animals That Sadly Went Extinct And Why

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...
WTVD

Scientists plan resurrection of Tasmanian tiger, animal that's been extinct since 1936

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Almost 100 years after its extinction, the Tasmanian tiger may live once again. Scientists want to resurrect the striped carnivorous marsupial, officially known as a thylacine, ...
USA Today

These species are now extinct, a 'tragic and sobering moment'

And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...
KCRW

A 3D reconstruction of the woolly mammoth genome might help revive the extinct species

"In so doing, you would be able to see exactly how that chromosome was shaped in a living cell, and you'd be able to both get a deeper understanding of the genomes of ancient and extinct species and ...
AOL

The Earth’s Worst-Ever Extinction Event Wiped Out 90% of All Animal Species

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact periods in history when it happened are less well known. Was it a single ...
Reader's Digest

Scientists Just Brought Back This Formerly Extinct Animal—And It’s Partly Thanks to a Hit HBO Show

Most of us saw Jurassic Park and its many sequels as a cautionary tale. Some scientists, however, apparently saw it as a game plan. While no one has brought dinosaurs back (yet), Texas-based genetic ...
The New York Times

An Artist Honors Extinct Plants and Animals at New York’s Swiss Institute

In an East Village gallery, K Allado-McDowell has created an audiovisual tribute to species we have lost as a rehearsal for a proposed physical monument. By Keridwen Cornelius When K Allado-McDowell ...
The Hill

Scientists genetically engineer wolves with features like extinct dire wolf

Colossal Biosciences, a company that aims to “de-extinct” animals, announced Monday its scientists successfully genetically engineered three wolves to resemble the long-extinct dire wolf. The dire ...