Neanderthals have been extinct for millennia, but roughly 1 to 4% of their DNA live on in modern Eurasian populations. This is not a rare case long-gone
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The zebra sub-species without stripes – known as the quagga – has been extinct since the 1880s. A South African project says it is on the verge of resurrecting it. But is this approach to species conservation really useful?
Two Rau quaggas on a field in South Africa. The quagga, a kind of stripeless zebra, has been extinct since the 1880s. After decades of research, the Quagga Project is on the verge of resurrecting the zebra sub-species through cross-breeding of zebras with matching gene pools. The result is the Rau q.