Scientists have obtained high-quality woolly mammoth DNA sequences from carcasses preserved in Siberian permafrost. These genomes (the full complement of DNA in the cell) have allowed scientists to ...

In 2018, they discovered a promising, well-preserved skin sample from a giant titan of the Ice Age: a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth. Typically, ancient DNA fragments yield short snippets of DNA and ...

A team of archaeologists recently made a remarkable discovery while excavating a prehistoric hunting ground in Austria: the ...

The biotech company Colossal Biosciences has long aspired to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth, which roamed the Northern Hemisphere thousands of years ago, during the last ice age. But for now, ...

But from now until May 10, everyone has the chance to meet Lyuba, the world's best-preserved mammoth mummy, on display at the IFC Mall in Central. "I Love Lyuba: Baby Mammoth of the Ice Age ...

Colossal Biosciences, the company aiming to resurrect the extinct species through genetic engineering, has now made mice with “mammoth-like ... of woolly mammoths preserved in permafrost.

Scientists used genetic sequencing to establish that mammoth hair was brown. Preserved mammoth hair looks orange in colour but researchers believe the pigment was darker, closer to black ...

While Colossal can’t truly bring back the woolly mammoth, it has promised to birth a very close equivalent, by analyzing the DNA present in preserved mammoth remains and comparing it against the ...