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

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

Colossal Biosciences CEO Ben Lamm explains how ancient DNA, AI and CRISPR are helping scientists pursue de-extinction.

An international team led by researchers at the Center for Paleogenetics, has uncovered microbial DNA preserved in woolly and steppe mammoth remains dating back more than one million years. The ...

This week we’re sharing an episode of the Marketplace climate solutions podcast “How We Survive.” The new season is all about ...

A pair of fossils once thought to be the youngest woolly mammoth remains ever found in Alaska have turned out to be something entirely different: whale bones. What seemed like a groundbreaking ...

A new study in Genome Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, resurrected the mutated genes of the last herd of woolly mammoths and found that their small population had developed ...

This past spring, a genetics startup company called Colossal introduced the world to a trio of young wolves that are extremely close genetic cousins of dire wolves. (Their names are Romulus, Remus — ...

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. Scientists studied a 39,000-year-old woolly mammoth that was trapped in Siberian permafrost - Reuters/Pichi Chuang Woolly mammoths ...

Scientists from Harvard University have successfully inserted DNA from a frozen mammoth into the living genes of an elephant. The Mail Online says, “Researchers studied the structure of DNA from ...