The term de-extinction is inaccurate, but conservation is still the best way to achieve its stated goals. We need to save the ...

A recent study by researchers at Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) has revealed that rapid forestation in the region ...

In early modern Europe, mammoth fossils were famously interpreted as the bones of unicorns and giants before being recognized ...

Extinction is typically for good. Once a species winks out, it survives only in memory and the fossil record. When it comes to the woolly mammoth, however, that rule has now been bent. It’s been ...

The Colossal Woolly Mouse as bred to have characteristics that could eventually be used in creating a next-generation woolly mammoth embryo to be born by a female elephant.

The woolly mammoth, along with other megafauna of the time, grazed in the cold grassy plains of Europe, Asia, and North America, where it was well suited to foraging.

Colossal Biosciences has genetically engineered the first dire wolf to live in over 10,000 years. Here's what that means for other extinct species.

In just the last several months, de-extinction — bringing back extinct species by recreating them or organisms that resemble ...

In popular culture, woolly mammoths have been a source of fascination for the last several centuries. Thomas Jefferson famously held out hope that live mammoths would be found beyond the frontier ...