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

It was previously assumed that early hunters only killed woolly mammoths if they were already injured. The discovery of these ...

Her departure comes as Woolly celebrates its 45th anniversary, and she’s hoping for one last big bash with the community at ...

The last woolly mammoth died on a remote island in the Arctic Ocean around 3,500 years ago, and the idea of bringing them ...

"This is a very, very big step for us because it proves that all of the work we've been doing for the last three years on the woolly mammoth is exactly what we predicted." The genetically ...

let alone a milestone on the way to bringing back woolly mammoths, which last roamed Earth some 4,000 years ago. “It’s far away from making a mammoth or a ‘mammoth mouse’,” says Stephan ...

Colossal Biosciences has focused on identifying key traits of extinct animals by studying ancient DNA, with a goal to genetically "engineer them into living animals," said CEO Ben Lamm.

Scientists with the company Colossal have created genetically engineered "woolly mice" with thick, golden-brown hair and fat ...

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 ...

Last year, scientists at Colossal successfully recreated the genome of a 52,000-year-old Woolly Mammoth that had been well preserved in ice. That's how they know exactly what genes they need to ...

Recent experiments to resurrect the extinct woolly mammoth have raised questions about whether investors are being ...

In 2000, the Pyrenean ibex went extinct when the last living individual was crushed ... set its sights on resurrecting the legendary woolly mammoth. But before that, they’ve delivered the ...