Scientists genetically engineer wolves with white hair, muscular jaws like extinct dire wolf

Scientists genetically engineer wolves with white hair, muscular jaws like extinct dire wolf

Three genetically engineered wolves that may resemble extinct dire wolves are trotting, sleeping and howling in an undisclosed secure location in the U.S., according to the company that aims to bring back lost species. The wolf pups, which range in age from three to six months old, have long white hair, muscular jaws and already […]

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Artist and printmaker Beatrice Forshall’s The Book of Vanishing Species draws attention to 69 threatened creatures

Artist and printmaker Beatrice Forshall’s The Book of Vanishing Species draws attention to 69 threatened creatures

Beatrice Forshall says it took her about three-and-a-half years of working full-time to finish the book. | Photo Credit: James Forshall Beatrice Forshall spent her childhood in France and Catalonia. A practitioner of the ancient art of engraving and printmaking, and a former artist-in-residence at the Cambridge Conservation Initiative, her debut book,  The Book of […]

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Tasmanian tigers, mammoths: Are de-extinction projects human vanity?

Tasmanian tigers, mammoths: Are de-extinction projects human vanity?

You might have heard of the project to bring the woolly mammoth back from extinction. In 2021, the Texas-based biotechnology company Colossal announced their plans to use genetic engineering to recreate the animal and return it to the Arctic tundra, its original natural habitat. Mammoths aren’t the only de-extinction target of Colossal — they recently […]

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