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. Earlier this year, Colossal – co-founded by Ben ...

A new study in Genome Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, resurrected the mutated genes of the last herd of woolly mammoths and found that their small population had developed ...

Sequencing mammoth DNA has already helped scientists map out how these Ice Age giants evolved, migrated, and survived. But there's a hidden layer of history still waiting to be decoded – the microbes ...

In late 2025, researchers at the University of Alaska Museum of the North uncovered a startling revelation: two fossilized vertebral plates, long labeled as the youngest woolly mammoths from Alaska's ...

Colossal Biosciences genome engineer Jonathan Walsh works on thylacine projects during a tour of the facility, on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025 in Dallas. Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer Science startup ...

The fossilized backbones of what appeared to be woolly mammoths have turned out to come from an entirely different and unexpected animal. Archaeologist Otto Geist came across the bones – two ...

Columbian mammoths in Mexico are genetically different from those in the U.S. and Canada, surprise DNA study reveals. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

40,000-year-old RNA from permafrost-preserved tissue was recovered from a mammoth specimen known as Yuka. Molecular evidence from Yuka revealed a correction to the original assumption about Yuka’s sex ...

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