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ST. LOUIS — A 5-month-old baby elephant made his first public appearance at the Saint Louis Zoo on Tuesday. Staff said it's the first of many. Jet, the Zoo's first Asian elephant born through ...

The breakthrough has been achieved by Colossal Biosciences, a multibillion-dollar United States company that claims their goal is to restore biodiversity through the de-extinction of species.

HOUSTON, Texas -- Families are flocking to Hermann Park to view the temporary outdoor art exhibit ... "Lantana is pushing animals quite a bit." Thekaekara added that the purpose of this traveling ...

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This is called functional de-extinction, so, bringing back the key functions of that animal, so like the size, the cranial facial, the thick coat, and obviously the muscle structure. Once you do ...

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In a tongue-in-cheek nod to Jeff Koons' iconic balloon animal sculptures, the exhibition by artist Cj Hendry is titled "Keff Joons." Imagine if a tangled mess of balloon animals expanded in size ...

ST. LOUIS — The Saint Louis Zoo announced Thursday that one of its oldest animals had died. Othello, a centenarian Aldabra giant tortoise, was humanely euthanized on Tuesday due to declining ...

So, did Colossal actually de-extinct a long lost species ... every edit poses some risk to the goal of birthing a health animal.) Then there’s the Biology 101 fact that an organism is not ...