Biotech company Colossal Biosciences is attempting to genetically engineer living animals to resemble extinct species such as the woolly mammoth. Woolly mammoths, which disappeared roughly 4,000 ...

Once a species winks out, it survives only in memory and the fossil record. When it comes to the woolly mammoth, however, that rule has now been bent. It’s been 4,000 years since the eight-ton ...

Some of the oldest mammoth fossils have been hidden in the permafrost for centuries. Today the permafrost is rapidly thawing as a result of climate change, and fossils are washing into the Adycha ...

A new billionaire from efforts to bring back the woolly mammoth: “What we’re excited about is that we are solving hard problems,” said Colossal Biosciences' cofounder and CEO Ben Lamm.

A prehistoric creature has just provided a stunning breakthrough, as a new research paper reveals that scientists mapped the three-dimensional architecture of a woolly mammoth's genome using ...

The start-up Colossal Biosciences aims to use gene-editing technology to bring back the woolly mammoth and other extinct species. Recently, the company achieved major milestones: last year ...

A hunter looking for deer on a West Texas ranch instead discovered a rare mammoth tusk, researchers say. The tusk was sitting in the drainage area of a creek bed on the O2 Ranch in Brewster and ...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers identified it as a mammoth tusk, an incredibly rare find for West Texas. After seeing the hunter’s photograph, Juett contacted Center for Big Bend ...