Four thousand years ago, on an island off the coast of what is now Siberia, the world’s last woolly mammoth took its final breath. Living on that island, isolated from other mammoths, could have led ...

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It’s one small step for mice, one giant leap for mammoth-kind. Scientists endeavoring to “de-extinct” woolly mammoths through genetic modification have taken a meaningful step toward achieving their ...

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The sexual practices of flamingos, tapirs, rhinos and chimps might explain our urges, but you probably don't want to emulate them. ADVISORY: This story includes biologically correct descriptions of ...

Extinction is still forever, but scientists at the biotech company Colossal Biosciences are trying what they say is the next best thing to restoring ancient beasts — genetically engineering living ...

The longest woolly rhino horn ever found is providing new insights into the lives of these now extinct animals. The horn — found preserved in Siberian permafrost — stretched over 1.6 meters, nearly ...

The last woolly mammoths to roam the Earth may have been sad, sickly creatures. As Nicola Davis reports for The Guardian, a new study suggests that the genomes of woolly mammoths living some 4,000 ...

Extinction may be forever, but the next best thing may be just around the corner. Biotech company Colossal Biosciences is ...

Mummified woolly rhino discovered by miners in Russia's Sakha Republic to be fully excavated in the coming months, as researchers begin studying its intact horn. When you purchase through links on our ...

Shortly after 10 a.m. Friday, Carlotta, a mountain tapir, strolled into her new home at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. The 21-year-old female, native to South America, sniffed around a bit in her remodeled ...

Amphibians have received a lot of bleak news recently. Last week a report from the Zoological Society of London and EDGE stated that 50 percent of Europe’s amphibians will go extinct by 2050 unless ...