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

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

The creation of three "dire wolf" pups has raised hopes that it may be possible to resurrect extinct animals. But some ...

The fate of the woolly mammoth is a story shaped by survival, isolation, and one final mystery still unsolved. Once scattered across the sweeping tundras of the Ice Age, these towering animals ...

Most mammoths died out by the end of the last ice age as the world became warmer around 10,500 years ago. Isolated island populations of woolly mammoths held on in Alaska and Siberia for a few ...

Although the wooly mammoth is something out of the Natural History Museum, an American biotechnology company is currently attempting to de-extinct animals once thought lost to time. Colossal ...

The analysis confirmed that the tooth belonged to a woolly mammoth and dated it to about 220,000 years old. "It really is very old. It's not the last ice age, it's not even the ice age before ...

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.

Colossal Biosciences, the genetic engineering company working to bring back the woolly mammoth, has actually already brought back one of its extinct Ice Age cohabitants: the dire wolf. The Dallas, ...