Page 4 - De Extinction News Today

De-extinction, also called resurrection biology, the process of resurrecting species that have died out, or gone extinct. Although once considered a fanciful notion, the possibility of bringing extinct species back to life has been raised by advances in selective breeding, genetics, and reproductive cloning technologies. Key among those advances was the development in the 1990s of a technique known as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), which was used to produce the first mammalian clone, Dol...

Researchers said they had partnered with Colossal Biosciences, a Texas company at the forefront of what’s known as the “de-extinction” movement.

Dodos playing in the park, woolly mammoths roaming the plains, Tasmanian tigers hunting in the hills? Experts weigh up the pros and cons of de-extinction.

A group of botanists confirmed the rediscovery of a rare orchid that had been thought to be extinct 120 years ago.

Everyone remembers the dodo – we’re forced to merely 'remember' the flightless bird because it was killed into extinction in 1662 less than a century after European sailors found them on the island of Mauritius east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. The dodo became a symbol for both senseless extinction and hope that one

Australia's extinct Christmas Island rat is the subject of a scientist's exploration into the possibility of and ethics ...

Crocodiles may be the modern creature closest to the dinosaurs, but their size and ferocity rarely gets them any respect for this longevity. As proof, paleontologists in China discovered a new species of 19-foot-long crocodiles that roamed there in great numbers a mere 3,000 years ago – but they’re no longer with us because terrified

‘De-extinction’ seems like a way to save dying or dead species - but in reality it’s an expensive and impractical waste of time.

Money talks … thylacine walks That could be the motto of the Thylacine Integrated Genomic Restoration Research (TIGRR) Lab which just received a $5 million philanthropic gift to be used to de-extinct the currently extinct (or possibly not) Thylacine – more popularly known as the Tasmanian tiger. Is $5 million the key to bringing back

Tasmanian tigers went extinct in 1936 but scientists in Australia believe they can resurrect the species using gene editing technology.