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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…
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
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
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
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 …
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
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
$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
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
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
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…
'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
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…
A company with a controversial strategy to bring animals back from extinction has hired influencers including a 'Bachelor' contestant — to promote it online
Influencers are posting about the firm's Tasmanian tiger 'de-extinction' plan using the hashtag #co…
Mara Leighton
These are the 25 animals that scientists want to bring back from extinction
Scientists must be able to show that the species is desirable, such as having an important ecologic…
Lindsay Dodgson
Dire wolves, camels, and other extinct giant mammals that used to live in North America
Giant mammals like dire wolves and saber-tooth cats were once common in North America. But these me…
Jenny McGrath
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
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
One of the greatest extinction mysteries in history is still unsolved
Shapiro writes that it's hard to pin the mammoth's end on warmth alone. While mammoths were the mos…
There's A Lab Where You Can Pay To Have Your Dog Cloned
First, they take a few cells from your pet and reprogram them to stop growing - effectively putting…