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

Their gene editing efforts focused on two general traits — both of which are associated with cold-weather survival. One, the mammoth’s curly textured hair, is quite visible. The other — altering a ...

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.

woolly hair of the mammoth and the extinct beast’s accelerated fat metabolism, which helped it survive Earth’s last ice age. Both traits are the result of sophisticated gene editing that ...

Researchers at Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences endowed their mice with the thick, shaggy hair of the mammoth and its efficient fat metabolism, which helped it survive in icy conditions.

This week, the world met the woolly “mammouse”—a genetically engineered mouse with woolly mammoth hair. The scientists ... would help slow the melting of ice caps, research shows, as the ...

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.

Back when the Earth was being overrun by glaciers, and animals were scurrying to save themselves from the upcoming Ice Age, a sloth named Sid, a woolly mammoth named Manny, and a saber-toothed ...

After 22 months—the typical elephant gestation period—an ice age mammoth should ... them successfully expressed the gold, woolly hair of the mammoth as well as its accelerated lipid metabolism.