Can we resurrect extinct species?
Scientists are preparing ambitious plans to resurrect long-dead animals from Passenger pigeons to woolly mammoths.
View ArticleCloning: Which animals and when?
Explore a menagerie of cloned animals from tadpoles to Dolly the Sheep.
View ArticleRunning out of tigers
Conservationists say that the largest of the big cats may go extinct in the wild within two decades, but can we afford to save them?
View ArticleWill we ever clone a mammoth?
Bringing the prehistoric animal back to life will require dexterity with DNA, a slice of luck and an intimate knowledge of an elephant’s reproductive system.
View ArticleA looming mass extinction
Conservationists fear many animal and plant species will vanish forever thanks to our impact on the planet. The big question is what we can do to prevent it.
View ArticleThe race to stop a global killer
A deadly fungus sweeping the world is wiping out hundreds of amphibian species. Researchers in Europe have teamed up to work out how to stop it.
View ArticleOur endless apocalypse obsession
Fears that the world will end on 21 December are rife, despite there being no evidence. So, why are we so fixated with end of the world theories?
View ArticleDoomsday delayed... again
Mankind's imminent destruction - this time by a "killer asteroid" - has once again been put on hold. So, why did we believe it in the first place?
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