The much publicised attempt to clone Australia's Tasmanian tiger back from extinction has been scrapped, the Australian Museum says. Australian Museum director Frank Howarth and assistant director ...

For the first time, scientists have created a clone of an endangered U.S. species—a black-footed ferret named Elizabeth Ann. The researchers used cells from a donor that had been dead for more than 30 ...

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SYDNEY, Australia -- The extinct Tasmanian tiger may one day roar back to life, Australian scientists said Tuesday, announcing they have taken some steps to clone the animal by replicating DNA from ...

SYDNEY (dpa) – So you thought cloning Dolly the sheep was complex science? Try bringing back to life the thylacine, a curious dog-like creature that was declared extinct when the last of its line died ...

The victims of extinction are countless and their killers numerous—but, in recent centuries, there’s been one obvious, enduring culprit: Homo sapiens. As humankind has increased in numbers and ...

If you haven't heard of the Tasmanian tiger, it's not because it's unworthy of discussion: it's famously not a feline but a dog-like marsupial, a predator that humans hunted to extinction. The last ...

Scientists estimate that approximately 900 species have gone extinct in the last five centuries alone, to say nothing of the thousands or millions that vanished from life in the billions of years ...

It used to be the stuff of science fiction: bringing a long-dead species back from extinction by painstakingly piecing together its full DNA sequence, or genome. It’s not quite as straightforward as ...

Far too many animals from Earth’s second-most remote continent have gone extinct in the past 10,000 years. Here’s one such example. In the year 1930, a striking photograph was taken. To this day, it ...