The company’s press release claimed the pups to be “the world’s first de-extinct animals … brought back from extinction using genetic edits derived from a complete dire wolf genome ...

Proxy dire wolves Three animals -- two males named Romulus and Remus and a female named Khaleesi -- are at the center of the controversy. Colossal created the wolf pups by taking DNA from an ...

It’s forcing the human race into what evolutionary biologists call a “bottleneck” — a period of rapid pressure that threatens cultures, customs and peoples with extinction. When college ...

Colossal Biosciences says that it has essentially returned the species to life through a process called de-extinction, in line with the company’s vision. “Colossal is the world’s first de ...

It’s called an extinction burst. An extinction burst occurs when a particular behavior that used to achieve a predictable result no longer works. It is a comparatively brief, but extremely ...

Founder and Executive director of the Edelman Fossil Park of Rowan University Paleontologist Dr. Kenneth Lacovara joins WIRED to answer the internet's questions about the phenomenon of extinction.

Geoffrey Hinton, often referred to as one of the “godfathers” of artificial intelligence, believes there is a 10% to 20% chance that AI could drive humanity to extinction within 30 years.

Applied behavior analysis (ABA) is a therapy for autism that encourages certain behaviors and discourages others. ABA therapy is controversial, as some argue that it reinforces the idea that ...

Anyone looking to change the world in 2025 could learn a lot from Extinction Rebellion’s rise.' As someone who joined the movement a few days later, I remember the curious, quasi-spiritual binding ...

“Look Alive” and “Extinction Burst,” the two new Straw Man Army tracks, manage to be nervous and meditative at the same time. “Look Alive” has a krautrock-ish beat, intricately ...