Thanks for this great question! Humans can be blamed for a lot of things: chopping down rainforests, worsening climate change, and driving precious species like the Tasmanian Tiger to extinction. But ...

The discovery of a juvenile woolly mammoth named Yuka, found in Siberian permafrost with its skin and muscles intact, has ...

The company first unveiled its plan to “de-extinct” the woolly mammoth using genetic editing and surrogacy and return it to the tundra equipped with the biological traits that will allow it to thrive ...

This week, the world met the woolly “mammouse”—a genetically engineered mouse with woolly mammoth hair. The scientists at Colossal Biosciences who created it think it’s a promising step toward their ...

While sifting through the juvenile mammoth’s genetic materials for traces of RNA, the team made another surprising discovery: ...

To search for even older RNA, Pour and his team focused on the permafrost regions of Siberia, where thawing soil has yielded ...

I think most of us occasionally feel the wistful longing to turn the clock back to the good old days, to the simpler times glorified in our memories. Or imaginations. It’s pretty much the same thing.

An international team led by scientists from Baylor College of Medicine and research centers in Spain and Denmark discovered fossils of ancient chromosomes in the remains of a woolly mammoth that died ...

Scientists have retraced the journey of a female woolly mammoth from her birthplace in present-day Canada to eastern central Alaska, where she met her end around 14,000 years ago at the hands of ...