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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 : ...

In just the last several months, de-extinction — bringing back extinct species by recreating them or organisms that resemble ...

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.

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.

“A mammoth is not an elephant in a fur coat,” says Tori Herridge, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Sheffield in England. Skepticism about bringing back woolly mammoths abounds.

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 ...