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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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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…

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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 …

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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…

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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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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…

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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…

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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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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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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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'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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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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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   


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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   


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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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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…

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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…

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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…

Erin Brodwin