Since then, many other mammals have been cloned, including deer, pigs, horses, and cattle. It was only a matter of time before geneticists decided to try the same technology to bring back an extinct ...

Colossal’s bold announcements have drawn criticism from many scientists, but the billion-dollar firm is not backing down.

The good condition of the ancient animal has raised hopes it could be cloned and the team were able to use carbon dating techniques to reveal it had walked the earth around 40,000 years ago.

Colossal hopes to produce mammoth-like Asian elephant embryos by next year and their first calves by 2028. The company is also working on bringing back the dodo bird and the Tasmanian tiger.

During the last ice age, the Earth was home to significantly more megafauna -- animals with adult body weights over 100 pounds -- than it is today. The Woolly Mammoth is one of the best-known ...

World Extinct bison emerges from melting permafrost up to 9,000 years later. Can it be cloned? By Brooke Baitinger April 3, 2023 4:32 PM Mammoth Museum of North-Eastern Federal University ...