The resulting animal would be a mammoth-elephant hybrid which looks, acts, behaves and functions in the environment just like woolly mammoths once did. Mr Lamm says: 'We are on target for our ...

On Tuesday, the team behind the plan to bring mammoth-like animals back to the tundra announced the creation of what it is ...

The biotech company Colossal Biosciences has long aspired to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth, which roamed the Northern ...

It will take a lot more genetic science than a few tweaks to hair length to make a mammoth from its closest living relative, ...

By combining mammoth DNA with Asian elephant genes, researchers hope to create a cold-resistant hybrid that could help restore Arctic ecosystems. Could this be the future of de-extinction or a ...

Colossal, cofounded by entrepreneur Ben Lamm and geneticist George Church in 2021, has pledged, to much fanfare, to bring woolly mammoths (“cold-tolerant elephant mammoth hybrids,” actually ...

Cloning the mammoth is impossible. What is left of the giant mammal is found in fragments, echoes of the past. Instead of a complete replica, Colossal aims to piece together DNA from other animals ...