Debbie Palmer, a local fossil enthusiast, has added a significant piece to the Calvert Marine Museum’s collection with her ...

The biotech company Colossal Biosciences has long aspired to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth, which roamed the Northern ...

A US biotech company has genetically modified mice to have traits from the extinct woolly mammoth. Researchers at Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences endowed their mice with the thick ...

The mice were created by Colossal Biosciences, which edits DNA for species conservation, and has been working to bring back the woolly mammoth since 2021.

Last year, scientists at Colossal successfully recreated the genome of a 52,000-year-old Woolly Mammoth that had been well preserved in ice. That's how they know exactly what genes they need to ...

This week, the world met the woolly “mammouse”—a genetically ... Bringing back the mammoth would help slow the melting of ice caps, research shows, as the large herbivores’ return to ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of at least five woolly mammoths at a site in Austria. The remains suggest that ...

The woolly mammoth is on this company’s list for revival ... these tundras have experienced significant ecological changes, including increased ice coverage, due to a combination of factors.

Woolly mammoths had a slightly shorter version of the gene, which the researchers believe may have contributed to its adaptation to life in cold climates. However, the “woolly mice” with the ...

This would slow any release of global warming gases and slow melting of ice caps. They identify the ... of African and Asian elephants, the mammoth’s closest living relative. These included long, ...

woolly hair of the mammoth and the extinct beast’s accelerated fat metabolism, which helped it survive Earth’s last ice age. Both traits are the result of sophisticated gene editing that ...