Do your children want to find nonfiction and fiction children’s books about endangered animals? Do your kids know that some animal species are extinct? And that more are in danger of extinction?

Shapiro's new book examines the capacity of science to bring back extinct animals. UC Santa Cruz Humans have long tinkered with life—what’s the most fascinating example? Domestication ...

The creation of three "dire wolf" pups has raised hopes that it may be possible to resurrect extinct animals. But some scientists have grave concerns. When news broke that Colossal Biosciences ...

There are so many animals that have gone extinct through the ages that we’re choosing to focus just on creatures that went extinct relatively recently: from 1800 onward. So even though we’ll ...

Books and TV shows aside ... one-of-a-kind gene editing technology that aims at rebuilding the DNA of now-extinct animals. The company said their work is more than creating animals that resemble ...

Dire wolves went extinct roughly 13,000 years ago ... dire wolf by George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" fantasy book series, the basis for HBO's TV series "Game of Thrones." ...

Most experts USA TODAY spoke with agreed that attempts to de-extinct animals, like the dire wolf, result in animals that are not the same as their ancestors and are actually hybrid animals.

In the case of the thylacine, the first step is sequencing the extinct animal's DNA – the genetic blueprint contained in every single cell of the body. Pask did this in 2017. "The great thing ...