extinction
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New Research Casts Doubt on What Killed the Last Living Mammoth
The last mammoths to walk the Earth did not succumb to inbreeding after hundreds of generations, despite being stuck on a remote island off the coast of Siberia. That’s the finding of research published today in Cell which interrogated 21 woolly mammoth genomes to understand how the population’s genetic diversity may have played a role…
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U.S. Endangered Species List Gets 21 Species Smaller (in the Bad Way)
The U.S. is officially saying goodbye to 21 species that have been feared gone for years. These animals, which include many birds and marine mammals, have been delisted from the Endangered Species Act because they are now declared extinct, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said this week. One famous bird, the ivory-billed woodpecker, was…
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Why a Genome Can’t Bring Back an Extinct Animal
Makeshift mammoths and body-double dodos are on the way – but they won’t be the same.
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The CIA Wants to Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth
A firm funded by the CIA is the latest investor in Colossal Biosciences.