TimesofIndia.com in Mullanpur: At the innings break, Punjab Kings (PBKS) players posed for the camera. The moment their faces hit the big screens, it told the story of the 85 minutes they had just endured against a charged-up Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) in Qualifier 1 of the IPL playoffs at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International…
De-extinction is a distinctly modern fantasy: the extremely appealing idea that we can, with just some pipettes and computers, undo the destruction we continue to cause the natural world. So it’s fitting that the first animal whose creation Colossal announced was a dire wolf — an animal that exists, in the public imagination, primarily as…
Colossal Biosciences Inc, a Dallas-based biotech firm with a $10 billion valuation, has announced a new breakthrough in its audacious mission to resurrect extinct animals.The company said Monday it’s created three dire wolves, a species popularised by fantasy series Game of Thrones but not seen on Earth in over 12,000 years. Colossal first gained fame…
For more than a decade, scientists have chased the idea of reviving extinct species, a process sometimes called de-extinction. Now, a company called Colossal Biosciences appears to have done it, or something close, with the dire wolf, a giant, extinct species made famous by the television series “Game of Thrones.” In 2021, a separate team…
NEW DELHI: Bahraich in Uttar Pradesh has been witnessing an ugly consequence of human-wildlife conflict, with wild a leopard loitering unrestrained in the city, which only last year dealt with the menace of wolves.Five people were injured in Bahraich’s Bargadwa village on Thursday in recent incidents of leopard attacks, which have petrified the hamlet. Poll…