Wildlife forensic scientists in China suggest that authorities can differentiate elephant ivory from mammoth ivory by analyzing stable isotopes (forms of an element that don’t break down over ...

Through his efforts to identify the mammoth, former natural history curator Gary Hoyle discovered the story of Old Bet, the elephant. Nowadays, Gary Hoyle lives on an island 6 miles off the coast ...

A high-tech company is confident that extinct beasts as far back as the ice age — like the woolly mammoth — can be resurrected by 2028, all thanks to a bankroll by Hollywood A-listers like ...

Let's face it, those sublime tusks the woolly mammoth sports would have been prime targets for poachers and the illegal ivory trade, endangering the mammoth in the process. The average elephant ...

The long-term goal is to create a living, walking elephant-mammoth hybrid that would be visually indistinguishable from its extinct forerunner and — if released into its natural habitat in ...

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 ...

A fter being extinct for 4,000 years, scientists are inching closer to bringing back the woolly mammoth. From a scientific standpoint, it is exciting to have the ability to de-extinct an animal.

We’re edging closer to seeing a live mammoth for the first time. Colossal Biosciences, a company dedicated to the controversial-but-unquestionably-cool goal of resurrecting extinct species, has ...

Illustration of a woolly mammoth in the Arctic. Scientists are hoping to genetically engineer elephants to exhibit the traits of the extinct woolly mammoth, which went extinct 3,500 years ago.

The company said it’s on track to produce a woolly mammoth calf born to a surrogate elephant mother by late 2028. “Woolly Mouse is not just a feat of engineering,” said chief executive and ...

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 ...

Startup Trying to Un-Extinct Prehistoric Mammoth Creates ‘Woolly Mouse ... The company said it’s on track to produce a woolly mammoth calf born to a surrogate elephant mother by late 2028.