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 ...

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 ...

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.

According to the Agence France-Presse ( AFP ), Yana’s examiners described the roughly four-foot-tall calf as smelling like a “mixture of fermented earth and flesh” after spending tens of thousands of ...

A Texas-based startup has revived the long-extinct dire wolf, but should we take their efforts with a pinch of salt?

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 ...

A company is trying to recreate long-extinct animals. In recent months, they’ve created woolly mammoth-like mice and grey wolf pups with dire wolf traits. However, some say their claims of de ...

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 ...

and woolly mammoth. And why not? We have the dire wolf again. Thanks to the heroic work of Colossal Biosciences, the canine species that went extinct more than 10,000 years ago has been revived in ...