Picture this: snow dusts the ground of a vast plain. Mountains rise in the distance, powerful winds sweep chilly air from the ...

The creation of three "dire wolf" pups has raised hopes that it may be possible to resurrect extinct animals. But some ...

The woolly mammoth once played a vital role in maintaining ... The science is clear: Asian elephants share 99.6% of their DNA with woolly mammoths. While the 0.4% difference might seem small ...

“You might be able to alter the hair pattern of an Asian elephant or adapt it to the cold, but it’s not bringing back a woolly mammoth. It’s changing an Asian elephant,” said University of Montana’s ...

The mice were created by Colossal Biosciences, which edits DNA for species conservation, and has been working to bring back the woolly mammoth since 2021.

"We're not taking mammoth DNA and plugging in the holes, we're trying to engineer the lost genes from mammoths into Asian elephants." Fascinatingly, Asian elephants are closely related to woolly ...

Understandably, this has generated a lot of “Jurassic Park”-like excitement, and the press coverage has been intense. One ...

Colossal’s woolly mammoth patent application, with its descriptions of modified cells and animals, represents “the current standard in biotech cases,” says Cassie Edgar, a partner at the law firm ...

A woolly mouse compared with a normal mouse ... the genes responsible for the traits that separate the mammoth from the Asian elephant—its close evolutionary relation—editing an elephant ...

However, Nitin Sekar, a conservation scientist with the Asian elephant specialist ... of the Arctic with woolly mammoths. This would require engineering a lot of baby mammoth proxies, which ...