Colossal Biosciences, powered by AI and amplified by Hollywood's megaphone, is proving that the story of extinction doesn't ...

Colossal's gene editing advances allowed them to harvest ancient DNA from real dire wolves fossils – a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull – and create dire wolf genomes.

The woolly mammoth, a close relative of the modern elephant, was a massive, shaggy-coated herbivore that roamed the Earth during the Ice Age. They went extinct approximately 4,000 years ago ...

In the summer of 2024, researchers reported that they had sequenced genes from the 52,000-year-old DNA of a woolly mammoth. The ancient beast was unearthed in Siberia, where it had been preserved ...

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 ...

Colossal Biosciences, a Texas tech startup best known for its goal to resurrect the extinct woolly mammoth, has created genetically engineered mice with “mammoth-like traits,” it announced on ...

"We're not putting mammoth DNA sequences into mice," Beth Shapiro, chief science officer at Colossal Biosciences, tells DCD. “There's 200 million years of evolutionary distance between them, ...

The Old Crow mammoth's DNA was in the oldest group of samples in the analysis, described as "deep-time DNA," but it wasn't the oldest. The oldest DNA, from Russia, was around 1.3 million years old.

Feb. 17, 2021 — An international team has sequenced DNA recovered from mammoth remains that are up to 1.2 million years old.

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 ...