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 ...

The company that revived the dire wolf says a woolly mammoth calf could arrive by 2028, laying out a timeline for one of the ...

Efforts to revive the thylacine and woolly mammoth are forcing conservationists to face a long-overdue debate over what kind ...

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 ...

Amy Scott, host of the podcast "How We Survive," reports on a company that's working on de-extinction innovation to try and ...

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 ...

The George Church–cofounded de-extinction company, Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences has announced that it has successfully engineered woolly mammoth hair traits into mice. The Colossal woolly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's tiny, but this lab mouse could have a mammoth impact. With curly whiskers and wavy, light hair that grows three times longer ...

Scientists have recovered ancient molecules of RNA from a juvenile mammoth named Yuka, who died 40,000 years ago in what is now Siberia. These biological remnants are providing insight into the last ...

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 ...