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$1.5 billion startup says it's getting close to bringing the woolly mammoth back from the dead with elephant cells
Colossal Biosciences, valued at $1.5 billion, said it can create a mammoth-like, gene-edited creatu…
Marianne Guenot
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The 'mammoth meatball' grown in a lab probably doesn't taste like woolly mammoth at all
Lab-grown meat startup Vow used a gene from mammoth DNA identical to one in Asian elephants. But th…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Kelsey …
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Billion-dollar startup plans to bring the dodo back from the dead, and claims it can also revive the woolly mammoth
Colossal Biosciences aims to use gene editing to recreate extinct animals, which it says is importa…
Marianne Guenot
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A near-perfect 30,000-year-old baby woolly mammoth discovered in Yukon's Klondike gold fields
A Yukon miner found the ice age animal. The most complete mummified mammoth in North America still …
Bethany Dawson
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Gold miners make 'super-exciting' discovery of 3 giant woolly mammoth skeletons in Yukon
Gold miners have discovered the partial skeletons of several woolly mammoths at Little Flake Mine n…
Alia Shoaib
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A company says it added mammoth DNA to plant-based burgers and that they tasted much more 'intense' and 'meatier' than the cow version
Paleo's CEO said there were "more aromatic compounds associated with grilled meat" present when the…
Kelsey Vlamis,Morgan McFall-J…
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A 3-foot-long mammoth tusk hidden on the ocean floor could offer clues about the ancient creatures
Scientists discovered a 3-foot-long tusk roughly 10,000 feet below the ocean's surface. Mammoth fos…
Aria Bendix
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A company made a volleyball-sized meatball with mammoth DNA, but no one tasted it because humans could be allergic to the 5,000-year-old protein
No, it won't be served with a side of spaghetti. Instead, the cultured meat firm, Vow, made the mea…
Kelsey Vlamis,Chris Panella
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From mammoth teeth, scientists just pulled DNA that's more than 1 million years old - the oldest DNA ever found
Researchers just sequenced the world's oldest known DNA, which came from mammoth teeth found in the…
Aylin Woodward
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Scientists hope to help Asian elephants fight climate change using woolly mammoth genes
Have you seen how artists, with the help of scientists, have imagined the woolly mammoths? If not…
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Peter Thiel gave $100,000 to the scientists trying to resurrect the woolly mammoth
The woolly mammoth went extinct 10,000 years ago, and in reality, the scientists wouldn't actually …
Erin Brodwin
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A new study reveals how the last woolly mammoths died out 4,000 years ago. That's after the Egyptians had built the pyramids.
A previous study found that the mammoth inhabitants on the other similarly isolated island of St. P…
Aylin Woodward
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Hundreds of ancient mammoth skeletons were found buried under the site of a future airport in Mexico
Archaeologists in Mexico dug up 200 mammoth skeletons at the site of a planned airport. The finding…
Susie Neilson
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Why the world needs to bring back woolly mammoths
If Church's lab gets to the point where they actually want to implant some new mammoth-elephant emb…
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Scientists think they finally know why the last woolly mammoths died out
For a few thousand of years before their extinction, a changing climate had caused sea levels to ri…
Simone M Scully
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The scientists aiming to 'bring back' the woolly mammoth originally wanted to do it using 40,000-year-old cells
It's the animal that a team of Harvard scientists hopes to create (or "bring back" as some advocate…
Erin Brodwin
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The carcass of a young woolly rhinoceros that died thousands of years ago was found almost perfectly preserved in the Siberia permafrost. Researchers even found the animal's horn.
Researchers analyzed an intact woolly rhino carcass found in the Siberian permafrost last year. The…
Aylin Woodward
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Researchers Found Something Amazing When They Autopsied A 40,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth
The fossilized carcass of Buttercup was dissected in a new Smithsonian documentary, called How To C…
Erin Brodwin
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'Mammoth pirates' spend months in the Siberian wilderness trying to strike it rich - take a look
As conservation groups and governments boost efforts to crack down on the illegal elephant ivory tr…
Melia Robinson
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Newly-unearthed Mammoth remains could help reveal when humans first arrived in the Americas
"What's so interesting about the Bristle site is that there's a mammoth with evidence of human asso…