Five years ago, we wrote about a team of Japanese scientists who predicted they would successfully clone a woolly mammoth within five years. So, why don't we have a living mammoth yet? Even though the ...

Scientists have sequenced a nearly complete woolly mammoth genome, which should bolster efforts to resurrect the Stone Age zoological rock star. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA (KTVI) – The wooly mammoth is making a comeback. For the first time in more than 4,000 years, genes from the DNA of a wooly mammoth have started to work again. According to The Telegraph ...

Scientists are talking for the first time about the old idea of resurrecting extinct species as if this staple of science fiction is a realistic possibility, saying that a living mammoth could perhaps ...

The last mammoths on Earth survived centuries of genetic drift before dying out some 4,000 years ago, but the ultimate cause of their demise remains unknown. Reading time 4 minutes The last mammoths ...

Today we’re hearing more from scientists about a word that first appeared, as far as I can tell, in science fiction in the 1970s. It’s “de-extinction,” and it raises the question: Can we clone lost ...

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Earlier this afternoon, Twitter friend Ivy McAllister called my attention to a curious video clip. Posted at io9 from a report in the sensationalist rag The Sun, the snippet is said to show a living ...