When the series "Time Bandits" needed a woolly mammoth they turned to the animatronic creators at Weta Workshop. The result looks real!

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

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

He added: "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." The results have ...

So, by looking carefully at mammoth and Asian elephant DNA, the researchers coould identify the 'key genes' that make the two species different. Dr Shapiro says: 'Our comparative genomic analyses ...

It doesn’t get them any closer to know if they would eventually be able to give an elephant useful mammoth-like traits and we have learned little biology.” Colossal has raised $435 million ...

Scientists engineered woolly mice to study mammoth traits, raising ethical and ecological concerns about de-extinction.

The company said it’s on track to produce a woolly mammoth calf born to a surrogate elephant mother by late 2028. “Woolly Mouse is not just a feat of engineering,” said chief executive and ...

Instead, Colossal Biosciences starts with the closest living relative to the woolly mammoth, the Asian elephant. The startup then uses AI to analyze samples of woolly mammoth DNA, including some ...

How can a startup provide a return on investment from bringing the woolly mammoth back from the dead? Ben Lamm, the CEO and cofounder of Colossal Biosciences, the startup developing "de-extinction ...