Once a species winks out, it survives only in memory and the fossil record. When it comes to the woolly mammoth, however, ...

And now, more than 11,000 years after the final woolly mammoth breathed its last, the company estimates they’re maybe three years away from bringing the behemoth back. “We didn’t mean to ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The woolly mammoth is long gone, having been pushed to extinction thousands of years ...

US biotechnology company Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences has a radical proposal: it wants to resurrect the woolly mammoth from extinction. In a preprint paper published on March 4 ...

Well, as it turns out, the hunter was right. It was a fossil—a rare woolly mammoth tusk, to be precise. In reporting the find, Sul Ross State University stated in a press release: “Juett said ...

Colossal made a splash in 2021 when it unveiled an ambitious plan to revive the woolly mammoth and later the dodo bird. Since then, the company has focused on identifying key traits of extinct ...

This marks a major step toward recreating traits of the extinct woolly mammoth, offering new hope for biodiversity and climate science. The team behind this work, Colossal Biosciences, sees it as ...

The company’s aim is to genetically modify Asian elephants to express woolly mammoth traits; the mice offered a comparatively easier way to test the impact of the proposed tweaks. But some ...