A new forensic test could help identify poached elephant ivory being disguised and smuggled as legal mammoth tusks.

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 ...

Of extinct Ice Age animals, woolly mammoths are probably one of the most famous. But if they were still around, then our world would look pretty different.

Through his efforts to identify the mammoth, former natural history curator Gary Hoyle discovered the story of Old Bet, the elephant.

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.

After 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.

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 ...

Editorial: Mammoth de-extinction is bad conservation Ecosystems are inconveniently complex, and elephants won't make good surrogates.

Colossal Biosciences, a startup trying to bring the prehistoric mammoth back from extinction, said it has achieved a first step: the Woolly Mouse. Using DNA and genomics technologies, scientists ...

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 ...

According to one expert, the bones could belong to a straight tusked elephant, Steppe mammoth or Southern mammoth, or a species closer to an Indian elephant than cold-favouring woolly mammoths.

Animals Extinct species 'Closer than people think': Woolly mammoth 'de-extinction' is nearing reality — and we have no idea what happens next Features By Sascha Pare published 30 August 2024 ...