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Humans have long tinkered with the evolutionary trajectories of other species. Thousands of years ago we tamed wolves into dogs and transformed a wild grass into the agricultural wonder wheat. Within ...

Dire wolves were massive and highly intelligent animals nearly the size of a small horse, capable of ripping a man’s arm off as easily as a dog kills a rat. They lived in cold regions in a place ...

Mass extinction sounds scary, but it’s basically nature’s biggest reset button. Throughout Earth’s history, there have been five major events where huge numbers of species disappeared quickly, and ...

With much controversy swirling around Colossal's proxy dire wolves, we spoke with the company's CEO to find out how these animals were created and what so-called de-extinction technology could mean ...

Oscar-nominated director explores a real-time ecological collapse caused by a behavioral pattern of sexual violence by male ...

(CNN) — No species lasts forever — extinction is part of the evolution of life. But at least five times, a biological catastrophe has engulfed the planet, killing off the vast majority of species from ...