Molecular clues from collagen in old bones are teaching us about the lives, movements, and demise of Ice Age megafauna like ...

"Dire wolves" created by Colossal Biosciences were pegged as "the first animals in history to be brought back from extinction ...

Woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) in a late Pleistocene landscape in northern ... the woolly mammoth roamed the frigid landscapes of the Pleistocene era. With ample well-preserved specimens, ...

confirms that wooly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) arrived in North America at least 100,000 years earlier than scientists initially thought. Study lead author Camilo Chacón-Duque, a researcher ...

Woolly mammoths were vital to early humans, shaping ecosystems and survival on the Mammoth Steppe. Their rise and extinction offer insights into prehistoric life. Taxes set to rise for millions of ...

Current de-extinction studies focus on genetically modifying closely related animals, like the Asian Elephant, with the cold-adaptive traits of the extinct Mammuthus primigenius, better known as ...

Multiplex-edited mice recapitulate woolly mammoth hair phenotypes The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) possessed a thick woolly coat and other cold-adaptive traits that enabled survival in harsh ...

The team looked at 121 mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) and elephant genomes in order to identify specific genes that impacted hair and other traits that would have equipped the extinct animals ...

announced that they had genetically engineered a Mus musculus to have qualities of the extinct Mammuthus primigenius. Instead of Earth-shaking stature or enormous tusks, the creature possessed an ...

Four images shared in social media posts were authentic photographs of a well-preserved mammoth skeleton discovered at a North American archaeological site. Since 2024, a set of images has ...

A study published in the March 2025 issue of the journal Quaternary Environments and Humans offers a deeper understanding of the mammoth-bone structures at the Kostenki 11 site in Russia.