Long before global warming was the biggest environmental issue, the planet was in the opposite kind of funk — an ice age lasting around 2.6 million years. During this time, starting about 700,000 ...

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Colossal Biosciences aims to rewrite history as they work to resurrect extinct species – and their sights are set on the woolly mammoth and the dodo. Earlier this year, Colossal – co-founded by Ben ...

Mice that contain cells with an added rat chromosome have been created by scientists. The next step is to try this with ...

A remarkably preserved Siberian woolly mammoth, dating back 52,000 years, has yielded an astonishing discovery: fossilized ...

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 have ...

Isolated populations survived on arctic islands much longer, with the final, small herd going extinct around 4,000 years ago (Image: Orla via Getty Images) The world's first "de-extinction" company ...

A woolly mouse, a breed created by scientists using genetic engineering. The development is a first step toward reviving a version of the extinct woolly mammoth. Scientists have genetically engineered ...

The George Church–cofounded de-extinction company, Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences has announced that it has successfully engineered woolly mammoth hair traits into mice. The Colossal woolly ...

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It’s tiny, but this lab mouse could have a mammoth impact. With curly whiskers and wavy, light hair that grows three times longer than that of an ordinary lab mouse, the genetically modified rodent ...