As technology races forward, a familiar face from the Ice Age may be about to make a comeback: the woolly mammoth.

Colossal, a US firm that is aiming to revive lost species such as the woolly mammoth, says it now has a near-complete genome of the extinct thylacine ...

such as the woolly mammoth, using genetic engineering and cloning techniques. “The goal of an ancient DNA scientist is to use the past as an evolutionary experiment,” says Shapiro. She began ...

Researchers are working to bring back extinct animals like the woolly mammoth and passenger pigeon, operating under the belief that reviving such species could restore vanishing habitats.

After the last known Tasmanian tiger died in captivity over 80 years ago, this marsupial predator might be a few steps away from a return to the world of the living.

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Females and their young roamed in herds of about 15 individuals. Male mammoths would leave the herd at the age of 10 years ...

Notable playwrights who’ve called Woolly home include Six Feet Under scribe Craig Wright, Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl (The Clean House) and that poet of neurosis, Nicky Silver.

A US-based biotechnology firm attempting to 'de-extinct' the Tasmanian tiger using DNA from another marsupial has released cartoon-narrated videos in a bid to win over sceptics. Colossal ...

De-extinction scientists have turned their attention to species from more 'recent' times — notably the Quaternary Period, ...

The project will study the structure and function of temperature-sensitive proteins in animals adapted to different thermal ...