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Aunt_Spray / Getty Images Replicas of the now-extinct Dodo birds The post continued, “Since the dawn of our nation, it has been innovation – not regulation – that has spawned American greatness. The ...

Colossal Biosciences achieves a scientific breakthrough. They bring back the dire wolf from extinction. Using genetic engineering, the team extracted DNA from ancient fossils. They created embryos ...

The company plans to apply this technique to dodo birds and woolly mammoths. Just last month it released photos of mice injected with genetic material from one of those extinct pachyderms ...

While their presence has delighted bird lovers, the city council has been ... of a handful of volunteers who have begun standing in front of the Apple store to collect the dead and dying tree ...

They underwent a wildfire simulation in the department’s “Tiny Town,” which gives crew members a bird’s-eye view of the city. “We spend about 13 bucks. We made some land-made photos, aerial shots. We ...

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And this is the way that we're going to create mammoths for the future." Dodo birds are also on Colossal's de-extinction list as the firm revealed it would use preserved DNA from dodos in museums ...

Up until now, the startup’s work has largely centered around ambitious projects to bring back the woolly mammoth, dodo bird and thyacline or Tasmanian tiger. Using its gene-editing technology on ...

Lamm says the company is striving for "functional de-extinction," which means reviving the traits of ancient animals like dire wolves, dodo birds, or woolly mammoths just enough for the new ...

Roaming North America during the Pleistocene ice ages, dire wolves were about 25% larger than gray wolves but went the way of the dodo bird (which Colossal is also looking into) more than 10,000 ...