An extinct animal has been resurrected by cloning for the first time—though the clone died minutes after birth. Findings revealed January 23 in the journal Theriogenology describe the use of frozen ...

ZARAGOZA, Spain, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Scientists in Spain say they'll attempt to clone an extinct mountain goat using frozen, preserved cells taken from the last living animal before it died. The species ...

WORCESTER, Mass. — In the winter chill last January, a mountain goat named Celia was wandering through the rocky highlands of northern Spain when a tree fell and crushed her to death. With that, ...

Scientists have come close to bringing an extinct species back to life for the first time with the birth of a cloned Pyrenean ibex, a type of mountain goat that is believed to have died out completely ...

Tucked inside Carl Zimmer's wonderful and thorough feature on de-extinction, a topic that got a TEDx coming out party last week, we find a tantalizing, heartbreaking anecdote about the time scientists ...