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 ...

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 ...

The Appendices of the Convention provide the lists of wild species that are protected by the Convention. In the introductory text here we should add : Appendix I includes wild flora species and ...

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 ...

The red wolf (Canis rufus) is the most endangered wolf species in the world.Only 15 to 17 red wolves remain in the wild in eastern North Carolina and 251 red wolves live in captivity, according to ...

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 ...

For the first time ever, scientists say they have made a species de-extinct, bringing the dire wolf back into the world thousands of years after it died off. Colossal Biosciences, a company based ...

(Photo: Colossal Bioscience) Defying extinction is now possible, at least for one species that has been dead for over 10,000 years. Colossal Biosciences has achieved a scientific milestone by ...