In 2010 Yukaghir hunters found the nearly intact carcass of a young woolly mammoth frozen in the northern Siberian permafrost. With its reddish-brown fur still clinging to its skin, the dog-sized calf ...

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 ...

A Texas company working to bring back the woolly mammoth has made an adorable breakthrough: the woolly mouse. Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences announced Tuesday that it has engineered mice with ...

A photo of a mammoth foot in a permafrost environment. Our study shows that the morphology of ancient chromosomes is preserved in mammoth parmafrost samples from 52,000 years ago, enabling the genome ...

Long before global warming was the biggest environmental issue, the planet was in the opposite kind of funk — an ice age lasting around 2.6 million years. During this time, starting about 700,000 ...

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 ...

Extinction is still forever, but scientists at the biotech company Colossal Biosciences are trying what they say is the next best thing to restoring ancient beasts — genetically engineering living ...

Resurrecting extinct creatures — it may sound like science fiction. Or maybe it reminds you of a familiar ’90s flick? While the fictitious “Jurassic Park” notably does not have a picture-perfect ...