In 1984, the creation of a wooly mammoth–elephant hybrid hit the headlines in more than
350 US newspapers. The news source: the April issue of MIT Technology Review. The …

A 1930s film shows a dog running and jumping inside a fenced enclosure—except that the
dog has a strange-shaped head, odd stripes, and a rigid tail that can only move side-to-side …

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Over a century ago, Alfred Russell Wallace wrote that “we live in a zoologically
impoverished world, from which all the hugest, and fiercest, and strangest forms have …

The emergence of de‐extinction is a study in technological optimism. What has already
been accomplished in recovering ancient genomes, recreating them, and reproducing …

Does extinction have to be forever? As the global extinction crisis accelerates,
conservationists and policy-makers increasingly use advanced biotechnologies such as …

A world-renowned paleontologist takes readers all over the globe to reveal a new science
that trumps science fiction: how humans can re-create a dinosaur. In movies, in novels, in …

The rapidly increasing human pressure on the biosphere is pushing biodiversity into the
sixth mass extinction event in the history of life on Earth. The organisms being exterminated …

Responses to technical innovations are varied, with some people engaging early with new
technology and pushing the envelope to see what could be achieved, whereas others push …

This book considers the cultural history and politics of de-extinction, an approach to wildlife
conservation that seeks to use advanced biotechnologies for genetic rescue, crisis …