Two fossil bones long tagged as woolly mammoth have now been confirmed as whales after tests overturned their museum label.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colossal Biosciences aims to rewrite history as they work to resurrect extinct species – and their sights are set on the woolly ...

New research published in the journal Cell reveals that scientists have managed to extract RNA, the molecule that translates genes into proteins, from the remains of a woolly mammoth that came from ...

A new study in Genome Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, resurrected the mutated genes of the last herd of woolly mammoths and found that their small population had developed ...

The fossilized backbones of what appeared to be woolly mammoths have turned out to come from an entirely different and unexpected animal. Archaeologist Otto Geist came across the bones – two ...

40,000-year-old RNA from permafrost-preserved tissue was recovered from a mammoth specimen known as Yuka. Molecular evidence from Yuka revealed a correction to the original assumption about Yuka’s sex ...

Colossal Biosciences aims to rewrite history as they work to resurrect extinct species – and their sights are set on the woolly mammoth and the dodo. Earlier this year, Colossal – co-founded by Ben ...