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Think extinction is rare? 2025’s Red List shatters that myth

Quick Take Six animal species, including the slender-billed curlew and Christmas Island shrew, were confirmed extinct in 2025 ...
Augusta Free Press

Does the recent birth of wooly mice and dire wolf pups mean that ‘de-extinction’ is a real thing?

In recent months, the Dallas-based biotech firm Colossal Biosciences announced the rebirth of the long-extinct dire wolf and woolly mammoth, species that had been extinct for thousands of years, ...
Gizmodo

What It’ll Take to Create 21st-Century Mammoths, Dodos, and Thylacines

This story is part of our Chief Innovation Officer Forecast series with Quartz, a business report from the front lines of the future. Colossal Biosciences has generated a flurry of headlines in recent ...
Live Science

'Closer than people think': Woolly mammoth 'de-extinction' is nearing reality — and we have no idea what happens next

Scientists are getting very close to bringing a few iconic species, like woolly mammoths and dodos, back from extinction. That may not be a good thing. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...
Business Wire

Colossal Achieves Multiple Scientific Firsts in Progress Towards Thylacine De-Extinction

DALLAS & MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today Colossal, the de-extinction and species preservation company, announces numerous breakthrough successes in all stages of the thylacine ...
Heartland

Climate Change Weekly # 564—Turns Out Climate Change Isn’t Causing ‘Mass Extinctions’

One of the persistent claims made across the twentieth century is that humans are causing mass extinction of species, both in rate and numbers, unseen since the end of the age of dinosaurs. I ...