“It’s far away from making a mammoth or a ‘mammoth mouse’,” says Stephan Riesenberg, a genome engineer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

Giorgia Guglielmi is a science journalist in Basel, Switzerland. The team also revealed the spatial organization of the mammoth’s DNA molecules and the active genes in its skin, including one ...

A high-tech company is confident that extinct beasts as far back as the ice age — like the woolly mammoth — can be resurrected by 2028, all thanks to a bankroll by Hollywood A-listers like ...

In addition to working on a woolly mammoth, the company aims to bring back the Tasmanian tiger and the dodo bird. But that 2028 goal might not be realistic. According to David Gold, a professor of ...

These scientists made a mammoth discovery — literally. Remains of a baby mammoth that has been almost perfectly preserved for 50,000 years have been unveiled to the public by researchers in Russia.

With a skin sample from a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth, scientists are gaining new insights into what made the animals tick. The findings could also help controversial de-extinction efforts.

A mammoth tusk boomerang from Poland is 40,000 years old The boomerang is a one-of-a-kind find from the last place archaeologists expected. Kiona N. Smith – Jun 30, 2025 2:45 PM | 118 ...

Stunning pictures show a female baby mammoth, dating back over 130,000 years, recently being dissected by Russian scientists. The mammoth, which has been nicknamed "Yana," was dissected at the ...

Russian scientists presented the carcass of a baby mammoth, whose incredibly well-preserved remains were found in the Siberian region of Yakutia in June after more than 50,000 years.

Scientists at a biotech company say they have created a key stem cell for Asian elephants that could help save the endangered species and become a steppingstone for bringing back the woolly mammoth.

Biology How Prehistoric Mammoth Tusks Could Help Bust Modern-Day Ivory Smugglers A new forensic test could help identify poached elephant ivory being disguised and smuggled as legal mammoth tusks.