The creation of three "dire wolf" pups has raised hopes that it may be possible to resurrect extinct animals. But some scientists have grave concerns.

This marks a major step toward recreating traits of the extinct woolly mammoth, offering new hope ... including drill monkeys and the northern white rhino. But elephants resisted the same methods ...

The challenge with de-extinction efforts is that they pull the spotlight away from the gravest crises on the planet.

The company is also exploring ways to help still-living species such as the northern white rhino ... Arctic with woolly mammoths. This would require engineering a lot of baby mammoth proxies ...

Take the case of the woolly mammoth. Colossal's project aims to create a cold-adapted ... using preserved genetic material and surrogate mothers from closely related rhino species. This effort ...

Researchers analysed frozen mammoth tissue and found antibodies ... have been one reason for their extinction. Also Read: Woolly rhino mummy found in Russian Far East confirms a feature seen ...

The woolly mammoth mostly became extinct 10,000 years ... preservation plans for animals including the endangered Sumatran rhino, the ivory-billed woodpecker and a type of porpoise called the ...

The spurious idea of 'de-extinction' offers us the illusion of undoing one of the great catastrophes of our own era ...

Genetic engineering company Colossal Biosciences has claimed the first dire wolves have been born after their extinction ...