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 ...

A bold plan to genetically engineer a version of the woolly mammoth, the tusked ice age giant that disappeared 4,000 years ago, is making some progress, according to the scientists involved.. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

Those are the startling claims being made by a US company that said on Tuesday it had created mice with "mammoth-like traits". Colossal Biosciences' eventual goal is to engineer mammoth-like ...

A mammoth task: stable isotope analyses as a tool to prevent illegal trade of elephant ivory. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution , 2025; 13 DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2025.1533703 Cite This Page : ...

Scientists have made a leap in genetic engineering by pushing elephant cells into an embryonic-like state. This marks a major step toward recreating traits of the extinct woolly mammoth, offering ...

Ethical blind spots. Colossal’s website spells out 10 steps for mammoth resurrection. Steps nine and 10 are: “implant the early embryo into the healthy Asian or African elephant surrogates ...

The mammoth was not simply a set of genes — it was a social animal, as is the modern Asian elephant," Matthew Cobb, a professor of zoology at the University of Manchester, told The Guardian, in ...

Previously, deriving elephant iPSCs proved challenging because these animals have a complex gene pathway not found in other species. The researchers overcame this by suppressing core genes called ...