Imagine a world where enormous woolly mammoths still roamed the frozen tundra, their long tusks sweeping through the snow as they trudged across ancient grasslands. These Ice Age giants once shaped ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After an intense study of the mammoth's genetic code, scientists have engineered 'woolly' mice with altered fur thickness, color, ...

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In just the last several months, de-extinction—bringing back extinct species by recreating them or organisms that resemble them—has moved closer from science fiction to science fact. Colossal ...

Jerry A. Coyne is professor emeritus of ecology and evolution at the University of Chicago. A recent display in Time magazine features a photo of a handsome white dog-like animal, a dire wolf. The ...

There is a new paper in Current Biology, Genetic Structure and Extinction of the Woolly Mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius. The authors use recovered mitochondrial DNA (passed through the female lineage) ...

Colossal Biosciences, a startup trying to bring the prehistoric mammoth back from extinction, said it has achieved a first step: the Woolly Mouse. Using DNA and genomics technologies, scientists have ...

In a lab far from the woolly mammoth’s icy plains, researchers from Colossal Biosciences have successfully brought a tiny “woolly mouse” to life. Here’s what it could mean for de-extinction. A tiny, ...

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Just like humans, mammoths had a robust community of microorganisms living on their skin and inside their bodies. Now, for the first time, scientists have identified some of the individual species ...