A biotechnology company whose goal is to bring back the wooly mammoth says its recent small step is big news. Colossal ...

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 cofounder and CEO Ben Lamm is worth $3.7 billion following the company's recent fundraise at an eye-popping $10.2 billion valuation. But it has yet to be paid for reviving extinct ...

The biotech company Colossal Biosciences has long aspired to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth, which roamed the Northern ...

In Russia’s Yakutia region, mammoths and other ice-age creatures once roamed the land ... Some of the oldest mammoth fossils have been hidden in the permafrost for centuries.

After 22 months—the typical elephant gestation period—an ice age mammoth should, at least theoretically, be born into the computer-age world. But speedbumps abound. The business of rewriting ...

Jim Al-Khalili talks to Dr Tori Herridge about her fascination with the litany of Ice Age elephant species, and the very particular stink of thawing mammoth carcase. Show more Elephants are the ...

Instead of trying to clone a dead mammoth, Colossal is trying to transform an modern elephant into a mammoth. The process begins with ancient DNA. Colossal's team extracted genetic material from ...

While prowling for deer at a private West Texas ranch in late December, a hunter encountered something incredibly rare: the ancient remains of an extinct Ice Age elephant. Will Juett, the manager ...

Mammoths (Mammuthus) are prehistoric beasts that roamed tundra ecosystems during the last ice age (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago), but their evolutionary history goes back farther than that.

Scientists engineered woolly mice to study mammoth traits, raising ethical and ecological concerns about de-extinction.