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Earlier this month, a company focused on conservation, Colossal Biosciences, announced the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf.

The internet is currently abuzz with talk of dire wolves – an extinct species of prehistoric wolf that used to roam North ...

Evolutionary molecular biologist Beth Shapiro is a leading expert in ancient DNA, having been first to recreate DNA data from a dodo. She specialises in the genetics of animals and plants that ...

Resurrecting extinct animals is both “exhilarating and terrifying,” says Beth Shapiro, an expert in ancient DNA and a biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Exhilarating ...

Inside, between rows of incubators and microscopes, Beth Shapiro and her team are attempting ... Though high-tech biology may benefit existing species, cloning a mammoth is technologically ...

Time magazine wants you to believe scientists have brought dire wolves back from the dead. Popularized by the HBO series Game of Thrones, dire wolves are the larger, whiter cousins of the modern ...

L ast month, the world looked on with awe as Colossal Biosciences revealed they had de-extincted the dire wolf. Dire wolves ...