Mammoth bones are widespread in the northern Siberian region of Yakutia, an enormous area bordering the Arctic Ocean covered by permafrost, which acts like a giant freezer for prehistoric fauna. Well, ...

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 ...

Just like humans, mammoths had a robust community of microorganisms living on their skin and inside their bodies. Now, for the first time, scientists have identified some of the individual species ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colossal Biosciences aims to rewrite history as they work to resurrect extinct species – and their sights are set on the woolly ...

Extinction is still forever, but scientists at the biotech company Colossal Biosciences are trying what they say is the next best thing to restoring ancient beasts — genetically engineering living ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists studied a 39,000-year-old woolly mammoth that was trapped in Siberian permafrost - Reuters/Pichi Chuang Woolly mammoths ...

Amy Scott, host of the podcast "How We Survive," reports on a company that's working on de-extinction innovation to try and ...

In just the last several months, de-extinction—bringing back extinct species by recreating them or organisms that resemble them—has moved closer from science fiction to science fact. Colossal ...

In a lab far from the woolly mammoth’s icy plains, researchers from Colossal Biosciences have successfully brought a tiny “woolly mouse” to life. Here’s what it could mean for de-extinction. A tiny, ...

Woolly mammoths have been extinct for thousands of years – Copyright AFP HERIKA MARTINEZ Food scientists on Tuesday unveiled a giant meatball made from lab-grown ...

Colossal Biosciences announced on November 4, 2025, that it has acquired Viagen, the company responsible for more commercial ...