Scientists have made a stem cell breakthrough in elephants, which could mean researchers are one step closer to bringing back long-extinct woolly mammoths, the de-extinction company Colossal ...

Although wooly mammoths are long gone, their recovered ivory lives on as a legal alternative to banned elephant ivory. Scientists can now use lasers to differentiate between the two materials, ...

We’re a step closer to seeing a live woolly mammoth walking the Earth for the first time in 4,000 years. Colossal Biosciences, a company dedicated to the controversial-but-unquestionably-cool goal of ...

Colossal Biosciences, which calls itself “the world’s first de-extinction company,” has created stem cells it thinks will hasten the company’s marquee goal of resurrecting the woolly mammoth. The team ...

The de-extinction company Colossal is the first to convert elephant cells to an embryonic state, but using them to make mammoths won’t be easy, say researchers. Scientists have finally managed to put ...

Following their success in reviving the extinct dire wolves, scientists are confident about the potential return of the long-gone woolly mammoth. The woolly mammoths were once widespread across Europe ...

Elephants are plagued by the same deadly bacteria that infected mammoths, genetic experts have found. A study of mammoth teeth, dating back 1.1 million years, uncovered the remains of microbes that ...

Some researchers say that "bringing back" woolly mammoths could help protect frozen tundras by slowing the melting of permafrost. Bettmann / Contributor via Getty Images Scientists from a company ...