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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, Dolly the sheep (born 1996, died 2003). In 2009, using SCNT, scientists very nearly achieved de-extinct...

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