These findings hold promise for editing elephant DNA to include mammoth-like adaptations—thick hair, fatty insulation, and cold tolerance—traits necessary for survival in arctic environments.

“There are many steps in the future.” Ultimately, the researchers want to edit elephant DNA to incorporate traits that allowed mammoths to survive the cold, like shaggy hair, curved tusks and ...

Once the gene edits are completed, the modified elephant cell's DNA will be transplanted into the egg cell of an Asian elephant in a process known as somatic cell nuclear transfer. The process ...

the Asian elephant, to incorporate critical elements gleaned from analysis of ancient mammoth DNA — fat deposits, shaggy hair, small ears, circadian biology and other features related to cold ...

Some scientists are attempting to rescue the Asian elephants from premature extinction using permafrost-preserved DNA of the woolly mammoth. Scientists are planning to make an elephant hybrid ...

Woolly mammoth meat hasn't been on the menu for at least 5,000 years. A lab-grown meat company called Vow recently appeared to put the option back on the table by creating a "mammoth meatball ...

Focusing on DNA analysis is Emil Karpinski from Hendrik ... about elephants and sparked the first glimmers of interest in elephant behaviour. A century and a half later, wild elephants will ...

Was he really the biggest elephant in the world ... biomechanics and ancient DNA analysis. This past summer, the American Museum of Natural History carefully uncrated Jumbo’s entire skeleton ...