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

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 ...

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 ...

Approximately 38 million years ago two termites were in the middle of courtship behavior when they got entrapped by tree resin and preserved in fossilized amber. This, so far, oldest and only ...

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 ...

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 ...