Scientists have found ancient nail tooth shark fossils deep inside Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, revealing new information about ...

Extremely rare fossil of an ancient scorpion unearthed at China's Jehol Biota. The scorpion would've been a key species in the Cretaceous ecosystem, scientists say.

Now, we may have some answers, thanks to a well-preserved 62 million-year-old skeleton ... Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch.

The hyaenodonts that survived then showed how adaptable and resilient the animals were, Borths said. A few million years later, however, they went extinct and were replaced by the relatives of ...

But it has yet to be paid for reviving extinct animals or saving endangered ones. Serial entrepreneur Ben Lamm and Harvard geneticist George Church started Colossal Biosciences in 2021 to bring ...

Since then, the company has focused on identifying key traits of extinct animals by studying ancient DNA, with a goal to genetically “engineer them into living animals,” said CEO Ben Lamm.

Scientists at Colossal have been working to “de-extinct” the woolly ... from freeze-dried remains of animals that are tens of thousands of years old. Shapiro and her colleagues plan to ...

Since then, the company has focused on identifying key traits of extinct animals by studying ancient DNA, with a goal to genetically "engineer them into living animals," said CEO Ben Lamm.