Scientists have just extracted frozen chromosomes from a mammoth in Siberia! Also in the news, the age of the last universal ...

woolly hair of the mammoth and the extinct beast’s accelerated fat metabolism, which helped it survive Earth’s last ice age. Both traits are the result of sophisticated gene editing that ...

the ambitious biotech company working on de-extincting species like the Woolly Mammoth and Thylacine. But it’s their efforts to bring back the Dire Wolf through genetic engineering that has ...

Genetic material from hundreds of mammoths is providing an unprecedented glimpse into their family tree and shows how these ...

In 2018, they discovered a promising, well-preserved skin sample from a giant titan of the Ice Age: a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth. Typically, ancient DNA fragments yield short snippets of DNA and ...

Efforts to revive the woolly mammoth—an Ice Age giant that disappeared around 4,000 years ago—have made steady progress, driven largely by advances in genetic engineering and ancient DNA research.

Colossal Biosciences plans to use the same gene-editing techniques on elephants, hoping to create a mammoth hybrid by 2028. But can science truly bring back the Ice Age giants? Asian elephants ...

The mice were created by Colossal Biosciences, which edits DNA for species conservation, and has been working to bring back the woolly mammoth since 2021.