On April 8, 2025, Colossal announced the successful birth of three dire wolf pups—Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi—marking the first-ever de-extinction of an animal through advanced genetic ...

Scientific criticism followed fast. The company’s press release claimed the pups to be “the world’s first de-extinct animals … brought back from extinction using genetic edits derived from a complete ...

One of college football’s oldest and most iconic rivalries could be headed for an unceremonious pause — or even a slow fade into extinction. The Notre Dame–USC football series, which dates ...

This fossil-rich landscape tells the story of Earth's most devastating mass extinction—and can help enlighten the climate threats we face today. There is a surprising natural wonder in the ...

Tragically, gill nets—which hang vertically and trap fish by their gills—are entangling dolphins and driving them toward extinction. Without urgent action, these cooperative, curious creatures ...

At the same time, their guardians starve. Centuries of sonic wisdom risk extinction in the digital age, not through irrelevance but through systemic extraction. Spotify’s global dominance masks ...

A vanishing species of whale gave birth to few babies this birthing season, raising alarms among scientists and conservationists who fear the animal could go extinct. The whale is the North ...

The shape of the decay graph conveys how decision-making systems across different timescales interact to generate animals' behavioral sequences. "We found that the pattern of predictivity decay ...

An "extinction crisis" is happening in Britain's temperate rainforests where some of the world's rarest mosses, lichens and liverworts are vanishing, ecologists have warned. Also known as Celtic ...

Temperate rainforest, seen here in the Vale of Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, is found in areas subject to the influence of the sea An "extinction crisis" is happening in Britain's temperate rainforests ...

Bees are under threat. Present species extinction rates are 100 to 1,000 times higher than normal due to human impacts. Close to 35 percent of invertebrate pollinators, particularly bees and ...