Just a few days ago, we were asking if de-extinction was possible, and today, we’re a huge step closer to bringing recently extinct species back to life. Researchers have announced that they’ve grown ...

Australian scientists have successfully revived and reactivated the genome of an extinct frog. The "Lazarus Project" team implanted cell nuclei from tissues collected in the 1970s and kept in a ...

The gastric brooding frog may be coming back. Does that give us a lot to brood about, too? This week scientists at the University of New South Wales' Lazarus Project announced they have reproduced the ...

Gastric brooding frogs come in two species: Rheobatrachus vitellinus and R. silus (pictured above and last seen in 1985). These frogs had a unique mode of reproduction: The female swallowed fertilized ...

Scientists may soon bring a species of frog (Rheobatrachus silus or the gastric brooding frog) back from the dead. The frog—which bizarrely swallowed its eggs, incubated them in its stomach, and gave ...

The New York Times has an interesting piece today on advances in the terrifying field of extinct-animal cloning. Per the paper: “Last week at a conference in Washington, scientists from Australia ...