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 ...

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

This could get hairy. 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 ...

Modern-day Wisconsin was once a shallow sea, home to coral reefs, giant jellyfish, pointy-shelled octopus relatives and other interesting creatures.

In a "first step" toward resurrecting the mammoth, researchers from Russia and South Korea are working to bring back another extinct animal, the Lena horse, using cells from a 40,000-year-old foal ...

Woolly mammoths are extinct. Here’s why they may be considered ‘endangered.’ A global summit on the wildlife trade will consider the proposal, which could further restrict the ivory trade.

Some believe large that, before their extinction, grazing animals like mammoths, horses and bison maintained the grasslands in our planet’s northern reaches and kept the earth frozen underneath ...

Mammoths are extinct." Israel’s conservation office became involved due to its close work with Kenyan wildlife authorities and Israel’s cooperation in East African elephant conservation.

The animals it's creating will have core genes from those ancestors, engineered for the same niche the extinct species inhabited. The woolly mammoth, for instance, is being called an Arctic elephant.

For that reason, most de-extinction is focused on the DNA we can find, primarily in animals that died in the past 50,000 years such as mammoths, though the oldest DNA recovered from a bone is 1 ...

With a skin sample from a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth, scientists are gaining new insights into what made the animals tick. The findings could also help controversial de-extinction efforts.

Mammoths and mastodons, roamed Wisconsin between about 20,000 to 12,000 years ago. Both species are ancient relatives of the modern-day elephant and likely interacted with humans. So, what ...