A woolly mouse compared with a normal mouse, at Colossal Biosciences labs. Editor at Large Extinction is typically for good. Once a species winks out, it survives only in memory and the fossil record.

Few extinct animals other than the dinosaurs have attracted more attention than the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius). Between 700,000 and 4,000 years ago, at the peak of the last ice age, these ...

A local resident stumbled upon the remains of the 19,700-year-old beast. Its record-breaking horn offers new insights into life in the Ice Age.

This week, the world met the woolly “mammouse”—a genetically engineered mouse with woolly mammoth hair. The scientists at Colossal Biosciences who created it think it’s a promising step toward their ...

Scientists have genetically engineered mice with some key characteristics of an extinct animal that was far larger — the woolly mammoth. This "woolly mouse" marks an important step toward achieving ...

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Dallas-based Colossal says it is one step closer to bringing back the woolly mammoth. Colossal Biosciences announced Tuesday that it had created the Colossal woolly mouse, genetically engineered mice ...

Scientists looking to bring the extinct woolly mammoth back to life have made adorable progress—using gene editing to create a "woolly mouse." The team at genetics and biotech firm Colossal ...