Resurrecting extinct animals is both “exhilarating and terrifying ... What about the most dangerous? I would be most afraid of the giant short-faced bear [which lived during the last glacial ...

Among the birds, the eagles are the most formidable and dangerous of the lot, but one extinct eagle puts all the others to ...

In the case of the thylacine, the first step is sequencing the extinct animal's DNA – the genetic blueprint contained in every single cell of the body. Pask did this in 2017. "The great thing ...

Busy tourist season is nearly upon Yosemite National Park and officials are warning visitors to be cautious of "one of the ...

Most experts USA TODAY spoke with agreed that attempts to de-extinct animals, like the dire wolf, result in animals that are not the same as their ancestors and are actually hybrid animals.

Adriana Perez’s recent article, “The ‘return’ of an extinct wolf is not the answer to saving endangered species, experts warn ...

A number of experts say that bringing back extinct animals will not solve any conservation problems and that efforts would be better spent trying to find ways to save current critically endangered ...

Skeptics also argue that animals manipulated to mimic extinct ones likely have no future ... “This whole idea that extinction is reversible is so dangerous,” Marshall said, “because then ...

The company recently announced the creation of three dire wolves, a canine species that hasn't roamed the Earth in more than 12,000 years, in the privately held company's continued efforts to ...

But some conservationists are expressing wide-ranging concern about the unintended consequences that could arise as researchers continue to try to resurrect versions of extinct animals.