3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (234+ words) NEW YORK (AP) – A biotech company that aims to resurrect lost creatures said Tuesday it has hatched live chicks in an artificial environment – a development that was met with mixed reviews from scientists and critics of its de-extinction mission....

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (730+ words) Millions of buried creatures burst forth each spring from beneath the soil of a cemetery in Ithaca, New York. It's not the return of the living dead; it's one of the world's largest aggregations of ground-nesting bees, ravenous for pollen....

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (505+ words) Four mice went to space as astronauts. One came back and became a mother. And that simple fact might matter more than you'd think for humanity's future beyond Earth. On 31 October, China launched four mice numbered 6, 98, 154, and 186, aboard the Shenzhou…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago   (996+ words) Pets just don't live long enough. We spend time, emotion, energy and lots of money caring for them, all while knowing we'll invariably outlive them. It's unsurprising then, that with the advent of cloning technologies a growing number of people…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago   (501+ words) Pooches, puppers, doggos – all these words mean the same thing. And, now it appears that the dogs themselves can connect similar linguistic labels, according to a new study from Eötvös Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary. This principle of "label extension…...