The last mammoths on Earth survived centuries of genetic drift before dying out some 4,000 years ago, but the ultimate cause of their demise remains unknown.
The path to de-extinction: A conversation with paleogeneticist Beth Shapiro, the new chief science officer at Colossal Biosciences.
The ‘de-extinction’ company Colossal Biosciences has taken a step toward its hairy elephant—erm, mammoth.
The animal’s life story was locked away in the chemical elements found in its tusk.
Explore the big-eared, long-trunked, and incredibly social lives of Earth's largest land mammals.
Some 50,000 years ago, Neanderthals were hunting lions in Europe, scientists say.
Makeshift mammoths and body-double dodos are on the way—but they won't be the genuine article.
New research finds that mammoths experienced musth, a phenomenon that sends modern elephants into a frenzy.
Surely there are better ways to market your cultured food company than spoofing ice age meat?
Colossal Biosciences also intends to resurrect the thylacine and woolly mammoth—an ambitious agenda, considering no extinct species has ever been brought back.
The genetic material is a million years older than the previous record-holder.
Human remains found in two caves are more than 13,500 years old.
A firm funded by the CIA is the latest investor in Colossal Biosciences.
The thylacine went extinct some time in the 20th century. What could take its place wouldn’t be the same.
A pile of mammoth bones offers evidence that people were living in the region as early as 37,000 years ago.
A well-preserved baby woolly mammoth has been discovered in the Yukon. It's the first time a complete mammoth ‘mummy’ has been found in North America.
Gene editing could potentially bring back the Christmas Island rat—but who wants more rats?
Three new papers describe Notiomastodon, an elephant relative that's long been in the shadow of its more famous cousin, the woolly mammoth.
Soils kept in cold storage suggest that some of these now-extinct animals survived longer than previously thought.
A decade-long study of environmental DNA indicates that glacial melt may have doomed the hairy animals.
