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.
What killed the last woolly mammoths? What killed the last woolly mammoths? Mammoth-elephant hybrids could be coming soon. Should they be? Mammoth-elephant hybrids could be coming soon.
A prehistoric creature has just provided a stunning breakthrough, as a new research paper reveals that scientists mapped the three-dimensional architecture of a woolly mammoth's genome using ...
In 2021, entrepreneur Ben Lamm and world-renowned Harvard geneticist George Church founded Colossal Biosciences with the audacious plan of creating animals very similar to woolly mammoths using ...
Ancient hunters killed woolly mammoths for their meat. Today in Russia’s Arctic the search is on for their valuable tusks. 15 min read This story appears in the April 2013 issue of National ...
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 ...
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.