Researchers say they have developed a new way to distinguish between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ivory. ...

Poachers are using a sneaky loophole to bypass the international ivory trade ban—by passing off illegal elephant ivory as legal mammoth ivory. Since the two types look deceptively similar, law ...

Stable isotope analysis could offer a new tool in the fight against wildlife poaching by helping differentiate legal mammoth ...

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 ...

A scientist who plans to bring the wooly mammoth—or at least its genes—back from extinction has revealed details about creating an "Arctic elephant." Mammoths mostly died out around 10,000 ...

What is a Woolly Mammoth? The woolly mammoth was a very large elephant-like mammal that inhabited the Earth during the Ice Age and is now extinct. It survived in extremely cold conditions and was well ...

Once edited to have mammoth-like genetic traits, the elephant’s cells could be used to make eggs and sperm and an embryo that could be implanted into some kind of artificial womb.

Checking DNA Against Elephants Hints At How Mammoths Got Woolly A clump of a mammoth's fur bought on eBay led scientists to a long list of ways the extinct species was special. One specific gene ...

Mammoth-elephant hybrids could be created within the decade. Should they be? A new startup co-founded by Harvard geneticist George Church wants to use cold-adapted elephants to remake the Arctic ...

US biotech startup Colossal is trying to create a mammoth-elephant hybrid and introduce it to the Arctic tundra. A group of elephants in Botswana could hold the key.