A worn-down mammoth tooth discovered nearly 150 years ago on an island in Nunavut offers new insights into where and how the Ice Age giants lived and died.

Colossal Biosciences, which has brought to life a small pack of genetically modified dire wolves, has acquired cloning company Viagen.

Genetic and isotopic analyses have pieced together a remarkable narrative of a 20-year-old female woolly mammoth, detailing her health, social status and travels – even though her story is more than 14,000 years old. It offers new insight into mammoth ...

A woolly mammoth meatball has been created from the animal’s DNA — 4,000 years after the beast went extinct. The dish is made of cultured meat, grown in labs from animal cells. It used the DNA of the woolly mammoth, together with fragments of DNA from ...

A tusk from a woolly mammoth, estimated to be 10,000 years old, has gone on display. The tusk originated from somewhere around the North Sea, according to Will Dorrell, co-owner of Hoo Zoo and Dinosaur World in Hadley in Telford, Shropshire, where the tusk can be seen. It was acquired from a collection in Holland, where it had been for five years.

Researchers have resurrected woolly mammoth genes in the lab. But this isn’t about bringing the extinct species back from the dead. These particular genes came from one of the last remaining mammoth populations, which are believed to have suffered ...

In the span of the short month of February, one group of scientists cloned an endangered black-footed ferret; another research group extracted the oldest DNA strands ever recovered from the preserved molars of a trio of mammoths. As both news about ...

Colossal, the company behind efforts to de-extinct the woolly mammoth and other long gone species announced Tuesday its acquisition of Viagen, an