It has taken no end of imagination for Sir Peter Jackson, the Academy Award winning—and, not incidentally, knighted—director of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films, to produce his entire body of ...

The project, in early stages, aims to bioengineer a moa-like bird while collaborating with Māori leaders and scientists to guide cultural and ecological restoration efforts in New Zealand Critics ...

Colossal Biosciences, the genetic engineering company that claimed to have resurrected the extinct dire wolf, is creating a biovault to preserve the genetic material of endangered species. The tissue ...

The real big bird returns. A company that claims to have resurrected the dire wolf has unveiled plans to bring back the moa, a long-extinct bird that once towered over people. The company, Colossal ...

The dire wolf, made famous in the hit HBO series "Game of Thrones," has been genetically-engineered by scientists in the U.S. The birth of three wolf pups, named Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi, is the ...

Dire wolves stalk modern imagination as fantasy mascots, but the real animals were Ice Age predators that lived, hunted, and ...

Three genetically engineered wolves that may resemble extinct dire wolves are trotting, sleeping and howling in an undisclosed secure location in the U.S., according to the company that aims to bring ...

Epicyon haydeni, or Hayden’s bone-crushing dog, roamed North America between 12 and 6 million years ago during the middle to late Miocene epoch. Its fossils have been discovered in at least 12 ...

The industry’s pawprints are all over the buzzy de-extincted canine, with famous investors including Peter Jackson and George R.R. Martin. But was it all for show? By Degen Pener Deputy Editor ...

A giant beaver skull, right, compared to a modern beaver skull at the State Museum in Albany. A female, left, and male specimen of Labrador ducks at the State Museum in Albany. Only 25 specimens of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No-go on the jet packs and the flying cars. But the business of de-extinction? That’s very much happening. In April, the ...