Their objective is well-defined and clear: to bring back the Woolly mammoth that comedian Trevor Noah wants to adopt and ...

Scientists are getting very close to bringing a few iconic species, like woolly mammoths and dodos, back from extinction. That may not be a good thing.

In 2018, they discovered a promising, well-preserved skin sample from a giant titan of the Ice Age: a 52,000-year-old woolly ...

The study, published recently in the journal Cell, reconstructed the 3D structures of the woolly mammoth’s chromosomes, the structure in the cell nucleus in which DNA and proteins are organised ...

The resurgence of extinct species like the woolly mammoth is becoming a reality, but it brings significant ethical and ecological questions.

When I asked self-styled "museum artist" Beth Zaiken if I could use her evocative painting of a mammoth for a story, she was ...

The final population of woolly mammoths lived on Wrangel Island, a remote landmass off the coast of modern-day Siberia.

Dalén and his colleagues have come close to sequencing complete woolly mammoth genomes, but a few regions of DNA, such as some strings of repeat code, still prove challenging. So far, Colossal ...

Scientists have assembled the genome of a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth using first-of-its-kind fossil DNA fragments unearthed in Siberia, an advance that takes researchers a step closer to ...

Scientists had collected DNA from Celia's ear before her death ... also known as the thylacine) and the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius). The ultimate goal for these de-extinction efforts ...

Scientists had collected DNA from Celia's ear before her death and injected her ... also known as the thylacine) and the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius). The ultimate goal for these ...