From Martha the passenger pigeon to Lonesome George the Pinta Island tortoise, these endlings had an unfortunate claim to ...

Likely the first extinction event of the 2000s in Europe, the sad history of the Pyrenean Ibex (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica) is a powerful example of the ever-increasing species loss worldwide due to ...

Biologists briefly brought the extinct Pyrenean ibex back to life in 2003 by creating a clone from a frozen tissue sample harvested before the goat's entire population vanished in 2000. The clone ...

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De-extinctioning is a movement to bring back species humans have killed off Scientists are working to revive passenger pigeons%2C woolly mammoths and other species Conservationists worry if extinction ...

Don’t expect something out of “Jurassic Park” to happen, but scientists and researchers say resurrecting extinct species, or “de-extinction,” could be possible, and it is time to involve the public.

Futurists have proposed that extinct animals could be resurrected some day via cloning of their DNA extracted from bone or frozen tissue. There is little agreement on this, but a new project to store ...

TARBES, France (AFP) — With a bumper litter of new kids, the recently introduced ibex population in the French Pyrenees is thriving more than a century after the native species of wild goats was wiped ...