Scientists are using ancient DNA and gene editing to bring back woolly mammoths—possibly by 2028. This controversial project ...

A major breakthrough in paleontology has shifted our understanding of the woolly mammoth’s presence in North America. A ...

Colossal Biosciences revealed its small pack of genetically modified dire wolves. The company's "de-extinction" plans include ...

Genetic analysis of the giant woolly mammoth reveals a surprising amount of genetic diversity over a million years.

Scientists created transgenic mice with woolly mammoth–like traits. But does it really bring us closer to bringing back woolly mammoths?

Researchers have performed a necropsy on a 130,000-year-old baby mammoth preserved in the Siberian permafrost.

A woolly mammoth tooth discovered in the Old Crow River basin in northern Yukon in 2018. After analyzing mitochondrial DNA from the tooth, scientists discovered that it belonged to the oldest ...

According to the Agence France-Presse ( AFP ), Yana’s examiners described the roughly four-foot-tall calf as smelling like a ...

After bringing dire wolves back from extinction, scientists are confident we could soon see the return of the long-dead woolly mammoth. Woolly mammoths roamed Europe, Asia, and North America from ...

The Old Crow mammoth's DNA was in the oldest group of samples in the analysis, described as "deep-time DNA," but it wasn't the oldest. The oldest DNA, from Russia, was around 1.3 million years old ...

Colossal Biosciences caught our imagination – and elicited memories of "Jurassic Park" – when the Dallas-based biotech company announced back in 2021 it would use cutting-edge genetics editing ...

The company that claims to have "resurrected" the dire wolf has its sights set on the woolly mammoth, dodo bird and Tasmanian ...