The woolly mammoth may be headed for a comeback thanks to a scientific breakthrough at Colossal Biosciences where they claim ...

Once a species winks out, it survives only in memory and the fossil record. When it comes to the woolly mammoth, however, that rule has now been bent. It’s been 4,000 years since the eight-ton ...

A woolly mammoth tooth discovered in the Old Crow River basin in northern Yukon in 2018. After analyzing mitochondrial DNA from the tooth, scientists discovered that it belonged to the oldest ...

Woolly mammoths roamed the frozen tundras of Europe, Asia and North America until they went extinct around 4,000 years ago. Colossal made a splash in 2021 when it unveiled an ambitious plan to revive ...

Colossal Biosciences caught our imagination – and elicited memories of "Jurassic Park" – when the Dallas-based biotech company announced back in 2021 it would use cutting-edge genetics editing ...