Gene editing’s real value is not in re-creating copies of long-extinct species like dire wolves, but instead using it to recover ones in trouble now.

A worker puts finishing touches to a life-size model of a Dire Wolf (Canis Dirus) at the Karpin Abentura park in the Karrantza valley, outside Bilbao July 26, 2014. Photo by Vincent West via Reuters.

More than 50 years after the bipartisan U.S. Endangered Species Act was passed unanimously in the Senate and 355-4 in the House of Representatives, the federal government is proposing to remove the… ...

The dire wolf, a large, wolflike species that went extinct about 12,000 years ago, has been in the news after biotech company Colossal claimed to have resurrected it using cloning and gene-editing ...

World News Fishermen killing endangered mako sharks exposed by Greenpeace: ‘It was devastating’ By Angela Barbuti Published June 7, 2025, 3:55 p.m. ET ...

According to the U.S. Fish Wildlife Service, the Endangered Species Act exists to protect threatened or endangered fish, wildlife, and plants. Enacted back in 1973, it aids in the recovery of such ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) - A critically endangered antelope was born at the Blank Park Zoo. Henri, a male addax calf, was born in hopes of preserving the near endangered species nationwide.

U.S. officials proposed Monday to protect the pangolin, a small, nocturnal mammal covered in scales, under the Endangered Species Act. The pangolin is “the most trafficked mammal in the world ...

Once widely consumed and prized for its taste, Gotali fish -- an indigenous species declared endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in 2015 -- is now on the path ...

The Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance welcomed its first-ever African pancake tortoise hatchling last month, zoo officials announced Tuesday.

ST. LOUIS – The Endangered Wolf Center in St. Louis announced that efforts to help six endangered Mexican Wolf Pups born in the state. The Mexican wolf, according to the center, is a keystone… ...

According to previous estimates, the eastern population of migratory monarchs has declined by as much as 84 percent between 1996 and 2014. Worse still is the fate of the western migratory monarchs ...