While headlines focus on bringing back the woolly mammoth, the most significant impact of this research lies in its immediate ...

Sequencing mammoth DNA has already helped scientists map out how these Ice Age giants evolved, migrated, and survived. But ...

Long before global warming was the biggest environmental issue, the planet was in the opposite kind of funk — an ice age lasting around 2.6 million years. During this time, starting about 700,000 ...

Colossal Biosciences has just had a major breakthrough in its attempt to revive the dodo bird from extinction. What are the ...

Colossal Biosciences aims to rewrite history as they work to resurrect extinct species – and their sights are set on the woolly mammoth and the dodo.

Exclusive: Colossal leaders discuss the future of the dire wolves on their first birthday, including a rewilding plan that ...

Scientists found that different species of woolly mammoths were interbreeding, creating hybrid babies with traits from both ...

Woolly mammoths are depicted in this illustration. (Illustration by Mauricio Anton/Wikimedia Commons) Rebecca Woods, University of Toronto In just the last several months, de-extinction — bringing ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- In a move that may conjure up fanciful thoughts of a particular Steven Spielberg film, a newly launched bioscience and genetics company with ties to Austin and Dallas is pioneering a ...

In recent months, the Dallas-based biotech firm Colossal Biosciences announced the rebirth of the long-extinct dire wolf and woolly mammoth, species that had been extinct for thousands of years, ...

Dire wolves — an animal that went extinct 13,000 years ago — that were born with the help of a Texas biotech company ...