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 ...

Harvard geneticist George Church has co-founded a new company with an audacious goal: engineer an elephant that resembles the extinct woolly mammoth. The company, named Colossal, aims to use ...

A curious, large-tusked elephantine creature appears in the tomb of Rekhmire, an Egyptian vizier who died sometime between 1479-1401 BCE. Could this creature be an extinct pygmy mammoth from the ...

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 ...

A group of researchers are getting closer to bringing the extinct woolly mammoth back to life.Geneticist George Church’s lab at Harvard University successfully copied genes from frozen woolly ...

The Elephant Family Tree, Extinct and Extant. Laura Helmuth. ... and the discovery of soft tissue in dinosaur bones and the recovery of still-meaty mammoth fossils in Siberia made the possibility ...

Traces of ancient hormones were detected in the tusks of a woolly mammoth that lived more than 33,000 years ago, revealing that the now-extinct creatures had episodes of raging testosterone.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...