According to a new study led by San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, among others, the answer is not only “yes”, but “yes, and we should ...

They've extracted fragments of enamel proteins from the teeth of fossils of the species Paranthropus robustus and used them ...

Over thousands of years, humans from Eurasia trekked more than 12,400 miles to eventually reach the southernmost tip of South ...

Alterations to a single gene in the plague bacterium's genome have shed light on a method the germ has used to survive and ...

To breathless media coverage, a company called Colossal Biosciences now claims to have produced three genetically engineered pups of the long-extinct dire wolf. Scientific criticism followed fast.

Modern humans were essentially like waves crashing on a beach, slowly but steadily eroding the beach away.” With this vivid ...

Researchers found that changes in the pla gene copy number in Yersinia pestis affected plague virulence and host survival.

To breathless media coverage, a company called Colossal Biosciences now claims to have produced three genetically engineered ...

Native to Vietnam, the saola is a horned species so illusive, it’s been nicknamed the Asian unicorn. Researchers reconstructed the genomes of 26 saola using samples from hunting trophies. A breeding ...

More than 47,000 species are currently threatened with extinction. Just last year, the International Union for Conservation ...

Colossal Biosciences' chief scientist has clarified that its "dire wolves" are just genetically modified gray wolves ...