While Asian elephants are the closest thing we currently have to mammoths, it would take a lot more than a few tweaks to hair length and squiggliness to meaningfully make a mammoth out of an elephant.

We tend to lump all mammoths together as big, hairy elephant-like beasts with enormous tusks. But there were a number of mammoth species, including less furry ones that inhabited temperate regions.

The woolly mammoth has been extinct for thousands of years, but Colossal Biosciences is pursuing technology that could help bring them back.

Ginsberg became an animal celebrity in the early 1960s after starring alongside John Wayne in a movie called Hatari, a ...

Scientists have made a leap in genetic engineering by pushing elephant cells into an embryonic-like state. This marks a major step toward recreating traits of the extinct woolly mammoth, offering ...

Researchers say they have developed a new way to distinguish between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ivory. Elephant ivory is often passed off as mammoth ivory when being imported. As the ...

The resulting mammoth genome had the same total number of chromosomes as modern elephants, and large-scale rearrangements, like duplicated or flipped sequences, were infrequent.

Mammoth ivory, dug up in the permafrost, is sometimes used as a legal substitute for elephant ivory. But this leaves a potential loophole for poached elephant ivory to be sold as mammoth ivory ...

The woolly mammoth has been extinct for thousands of years, but Colossal Biosciences is pursuing technology that could help bring them back.