Australia just welcomed back a once-extinct animal in world-first programme

The Blue Buck antelope disappeared from Earth more than 200 years ago. Now, Colossal Biosciences says it can bring it back.

Colossal, the company that brought back the dire wolf and aims to "de-extinct" the woolly mammoth and dodo bird, announced its next project: southern Africa's extinct bluebuck.

Humans wiped out the bluebuck in Africa around 200 years ago. Bringing it back is both ethically and technologically challenging.

Colossal Biosciences, the Dallas, Texas company looking to 'de-extinct' the woolly mammoth is adding an African antelope to its projects.

Colossal Biosciences made a record-breaking 20 edits across 14 genes in gray wolf cells by adding extinct dire wolf DNA. This was the first time ancient DNA has been used to bioengineer an extinct species. Scientists disagree that gene-altered gray wolves ...

Nowadays, it feels like extinction headlines dominate conversations about wildlife, but there’s another set of stories that tells a different truth. Around the world, careful planning and policy changes have pulled several species back from the edge.

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A little-known but valuable species found in Kentucky rivers is on a "pathway toward extinction" without federal intervention, a new lawsuit alleges.