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endangered species
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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 beloved emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal are now officially endangered. Here’s what can be done
The Conversation, CC BY-ND Mary-Anne Lea, University of Tasmania; Jane Younger, University of Tasmania, and Noemie Friscourt, University…
As Antarctic sea ice shrinks, iconic emperor penguins are in more peril than we thought
Dana M Bergstrom, University of Wollongong When winter comes to Antarctica, seals and Adélie penguins leave the freezing…
Can we really resurrect extinct animals, or are we just creating hi-tech lookalikes?
Artist’s rendering: Woolly mammoths once roamed large swathes of Siberia. Denis-S / Shutterstock Timothy Hearn, Anglia Ruskin University…
From cod logs to frog bogs: we catalogued 400 ways to help species survive a warmer world
‘Cod logs’ placed in the Mary River can give fish a safe place to shelter. © Caitlin Jones,…
Meet the kowari: a pint-sized predator on the fast track to extinction
Ariana Ananda Katherine Moseby, UNSW Sydney and Katherine Tuft, University of Adelaide Australia is home to more than…
How gene mapping almost all remaining kākāpō will help NZ’s rare night parrot survive
Shutterstock/FeatherStalker Don Joseph Guhlin, University of Otago and Peter Dearden, University of Otago The genetic mapping of almost…