Understandably, this has generated a lot of “Jurassic Park”-like excitement, and the press coverage has been intense. One ...

In order to determine the origin of woolly mammoths from clade one and their relation to earlier mammoths in clade three, Dalén says scientists need to look for more woolly mammoth remains from ...

Scientists have discovered that a tooth found near Old Crow, Yukon, in 2018 belonged to the oldest known woolly mammoth in North America. The discovery challenges the popular belief that mammoths ...

There are three different lineages of woolly mammoths based on their mitochondrial DNA, says Dalén. Two of those lineages have been found in North America, but almost all of the samples from the last ...

to an imagined encounter with a woolly mammoth. Throughout them all, Kanze’s writing is warm, witty, and accessible. Ed Kanze made the trip up to the North Country Public Radio studios recently ...

These frozen archives provide genetic materials that may one day allow scientists to consider attempts at de-extinction or, more practically, to better understand the impacts of climate change on ...

Picture the Australian wilderness at dawn: the soft glow of sunlight dances across gum tree leaves, a gentle breeze stirs, ...

Taking post outside of the museum’s new research, education and collections center are two 2,000-pound adult woolly mammoth statues. The life-size creatures are made of a steel frame that is ...

Many huge animals went extinct surprisingly recently. When they died, their ecological role was lost with them.

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Colossal Biosciences, an American biotechnology company, announced the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf, a prehistoric wolf species that died out more than 10,000 years ago, in April 2025.

"It will walk like a woolly mammoth, look like one, sound like one, but most importantly it will be able to inhabit the same ecosystem previously abandoned by the Mammoth’s extinction," says ...