I’m a composer and conductor in the field that’s broadly known as Western classical music, a term that’s routinely applied to radically different idioms across more than 1,000 years of ...

But some activists and scientists have pointed out the dubious nature of these claims, criticizing the murky science of de-extinction. To date, there has only been one successful attempt to bring ...

De-extinction. A terminology that we are certain to hear more of, in the coming months and years. Humanity has perhaps found its latest look-good project, or maybe there’s more to this.

It’s forcing the human race into what evolutionary biologists call a “bottleneck” — a period of rapid pressure that threatens cultures, customs and peoples with extinction. When college ...

To find answers, a team of researchers studied North America’s fossil record, focusing on the 18 million years before the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period. The new analysis ...

Over the past week, the media have been inundated with news of the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus)—a species that went extinct about 13,000 years ago. The breakthrough has been ...

By Joshua BaroneSeth Colter WallsZachary Woolfe and Oussama Zahr The New York Times’s classical music and opera critics see and hear much more than they review. Here is what has hooked them ...

Our planet now faces a global extinction crisis never witnessed by humankind. Scientists predict that more than 1 million species are on track for extinction in the coming decades. But there’s still ...

For over 2 million years, dire wolves roamed present-day North America until their extinction around 10,000 B.C. On Monday, a Dallas-based bioscience firm said it had brought the species back to ...