Named “The 8th Continent”, this award-winning design is able to recycle plastic from oceans while being 100 percent self-sustainable. It has five structures and features everything from living quarters to biodegradable waste collectors and greenhouses. It’s the brainchild of Lenka Petrakova, a senior designer at Zaha Hadid Architects from London, […]
The woolly mammoth went extinct some 10,000 years ago, but it may now get a new chance for life after one company decided to step in. Colossal, co-founded by Ben Lamm and Harvard Medical School genetics professor George Church, raised $15 million to ensure this happens. Their goal is to […]
A giant tortoise from a species previously thought to be extinct was located on the Galapagos Islands. The species was last spotted in 1906. The Fernandina or the female Chelonoidis phantasticus was found in 2019 during an expedition. To confirm, scientists tested the samples. They compared them with remains from […]
According to the 2011 Rio movie by 20th Century Fox, a blue macaw travels thousands of miles from Minnesota to Brazil to save its endangered species. The threat to the blue macaw started in the 80s. Unfortunately, in 2018, this bird has been officially declared as extinct. Now, the Rio […]