Preservation of animal genetic material poses its own unique set of challenges — ones that the San Diego “Frozen Zoo” don’t shy away from. They’ve recently shown the viability of the ...

But researchers at San Diego Zoo are fighting back with what they call the Frozen Zoo. They began collecting tissue samples from rare animals in 1972. The team have been storing the cells in their ...

Situated beneath a vast wildlife park in San Diego, California, lies the world's oldest and largest Frozen Zoo, an essential stronghold in the fight against extinction. Established nearly half a ...

But in the middle of Melbourne, a frozen zoo could be a lifeline for wildlife species around the country. Researchers from Museums Victoria and Melbourne University have started to collect tissue ...

A Rio de Janeiro zoo is giving ice pops to a bear, a jaguar, wolves and monkeys for some welcome relief from Brazil’s stifling summer heat ...

The San Diego Zoo made headlines last spring with news that its so-called frozen zoo might be used to clone members of a critically endangered rhinoceros species. “In 2018, the last male northern ...

“This is a frozen zoo,” said Dr Nisar Wani, head of the Camel Reproduction Centre in Dubai, gesturing to the cryogenic tank. “Inside these boxes are thousands upon thousands of ...

“That's a bit of the idea: helping to maintain species diversity through genetic conservation - what we call a genetic bank, a kind of 'frozen zoo'," he said. “Basically, it's having embryos ...