As Minnesotans gear up for the growing season, the University of Minnesota has a warning about where you buy your plants.

China recently discovered a new mineral species — high-purity quartz, the CCTV News reported on Thursday, saying that this discovery is expected to reduce the country's heavy reliance on imports ...

And they're cute as hell." The large wolf species roamed the Americas for more than 100,000 years, before going extinct some 13,000 years ago. It was believed to have hunted large prey like ...

Throughout my career, I’ve had the extraordinary privilege of literally saving species—through food. As a specialist in comparative animal nutrition, I’ve spent decades working at the intersection of ...

The birth of these pups is not the return of an extinct species. Instead, it’s a demonstration of how far we’ve come in the toolkit of synthetic biology (a field that involves redesigning systems ...

This groundbreaking achievement marks the first de-extinction of a species, reviving the dire wolf after 12,500 years. The pups exhibit distinctive features of the extinct creature, opening doors ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran orangutan, Bornean orangutan, gorilla, bonobo, and chimpanzee. Areas of ...

Earlier this week, the Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences announced that it has successfully resurrected the dire wolf, a canine species that once roamed North America and went extinct over 12,500 ...

But strictly speaking, the creatures aren’t dire wolves, nor do they represent the first species to be brought back. And that is not to take away one iota of interest from the firm’s achievement, nor ...

We, quite rightly, worry about how the activities of humans are leading to the extinction of animal species alive today. However, extinction is not a modern phenomenon. All through geologic time there ...

The scientists at a company called Colossal Biosciences have performed a miracle, or in other words – de-extinction – a process which revives an extinct species. What ‘Game of Thrones’ mad ...