Inside, between rows of incubators and microscopes, Beth Shapiro and her team are attempting a feat straight out of science ...

Perhaps the most famous frozen find, woolly mammoths have been ... Ice Age and have even sparked discussions about cloning these extinct giants. Their preservation is a chilling reminder of ...

A recent report by the UN warned that thanks to human pressures, one million species have been put at risk of extinction ... the Frozen Zoo. They began collecting tissue samples from rare animals ...

The age of de-extinction may soon be a reality. Advances in genetic engineering and synthetic biology are making resurrecting animals once lost to this world a tangible prospect. The organizations ...

Preservation of animal genetic material poses its own unique set of challenges — ones that the San Diego “Frozen Zoo” don ... since it was thought to be extinct in the mid-20th century.

After years of studying the genetics and morphology of the long-frozen nematodes, Shatilovich and her colleagues now claim that the reanimated worms are a previously-undescribed species—one from ...

Established nearly half a century ago, the Frozen Zoo preserved over 11,000 samples from more than 1,300 species, including endangered and extinct animals, serving as a crucial resource in the ...

WASHINGTON — Nearly a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction, according to new research published Wednesday. “Huge rivers like ...

What type of food did extinct vertebrates eat? And how can we gain insight into the diets of these creatures? In living animals, we can simply observe what they feed on today. In the case of ...

But in the middle of Melbourne, a frozen zoo could be a lifeline ... Peta Bulling says Australia is undergoing an extinction crisis, with more than 2,000 plants, animals and ecosystems on the ...