Previous studies have established that woolly mammoths, distant relatives of today’s elephants, once roamed across North America, Asia, and northern Europe before going extinct roughly 4,000 ...

Scientists have just extracted frozen chromosomes from a mammoth in Siberia! Also in the news, the age of the last universal common ancestor of all life on Earth has been calculated, a new species ...

Colossal’s ultimate goal is to introduce these woolly mammoth traits, along with others, into modern elephants. This general area of science has become known as de-extinction.

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Woolly mammoths have become the poster child for de-extinction. The giant land mammals have long held our intrigue and fascination.

Mammoths (Mammuthus) are prehistoric beasts that roamed tundra ecosystems during the last ice age (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago), but their evolutionary history goes back farther than that.

A woolly mammoth tusk unearthed in a coal mine where it had been buried for thousands of years has been carefully conserved during an unusual clean-up job. Belonging to the long extinct Ice Age ...