This week, the world met the woolly “mammouse”—a genetically engineered mouse with woolly mammoth hair. The scientists at Colossal Biosciences who created it think it’s a promising step toward their ...

We all watch movies like Jurassic Park and Jurassic World and marvel at the possibilities of bringing back animals and creators from the history books into the present day, and now Colossal ...

The quest to resurrect the woolly mammoth on Earth has taken another, well, small step with the creation of the Colossal Woolly Mouse. The lab-engineered rodents have seven genes that have been ...

Extinction is typically for good. Once a species winks out, it survives only in memory and the fossil record. When it comes to the woolly mammoth, however, that rule has now been bent. It’s been 4,000 ...

No, this isn’t a new Jurassic Park plot: A real-life woolly mammoth could be on Earth by the decade’s end. Biotechnology start-up Colossal Biosciences Inc., which is using DNA and genomics in an ...

Few extinct animals other than the dinosaurs have attracted more attention than the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius). Between 700,000 and 4,000 years ago, at the peak of the last ice age, these ...