The conservation value of de-extinction lies not in populating landscapes with proxy extinct animals, but in developing technologies that address today's biodiversity crisis.

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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 ...

Scientists have long treated mass extinctions as events locked deep in the fossil record. That framing now feels less distant. New research points to patterns that resemble earlier biological ...