In 2018, they discovered a promising, well-preserved skin sample from a giant titan of the Ice Age: a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth. Typically, ancient DNA fragments yield short snippets of DNA and ...

The biotech company Colossal Biosciences has long aspired to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth, which roamed the Northern ...

An international team of scientists have discovered ancient fossil chromosomes preserved in a glass-like state in the skin of a 52,000 year old female woolly mammoth, revealing a treasure trove of ...

Woolly mammoths had a slightly shorter version of the gene, which the researchers believe may have contributed to its ...

The applied physicist explains how the structure of 52,000-year-old genes hint at the biology of an extinct animal ...