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De‑extinction company says it’s made an artificial egg – if true, it could help save living species
Nic Rawlence, University of Otago Today’s announcement by Texas-based de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences about a successful hatching of…
The ancestors of ostriches and emus were long-distance fliers – here’s how we worked this out
Oleksii Synelnykov/Shutterstock Klara Widrig, Smithsonian Institution Aside from being a delight to watch, flight in birds is regarded…
The Viewpoint: Can we really resurrect extinct animals, or are we just creating hi-tech lookalikes?
The ambitious effort to resurrect extinct species, such as the woolly mammoth, raises a key question: Are we truly reversing extinction, or just creating high-tech lookalikes?