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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 ...

‘Humans play God all the time’: The biotech firm on a mission to bring back extinct animals

According to Prof Pask, one of the key goals of Colossal Biosciences in bringing back extinct species would be to reintroduce ...

Extinction rates have slowed across many plant and animal groups, study shows

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on ...

Hunters or collectors? New evidence challenges claim Australia's First Peoples sent large animals extinct

Tens of thousands of years ago, Australia was still home to enigmatic megafauna—large land animals such as giant marsupial ...
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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 ...