Researchers analyzed ancient RNA from the extinct creatures. Could this be a “steppingstone” in the quest to bring them back?

“I’m excited,” Beth Shapiro, Colossal’s chief science officer, told PEOPLE in an exclusive interview in March. She described ...

A pair of fossils once thought to be the youngest woolly mammoth remains ever found in Alaska have turned out to be something ...

View post: Nike's Most Iconic Sneaker Is a Rare 25% Off During Its Massive Holiday Gifting Sale Colossal Biosciences aims to rewrite history as they work to resurrect extinct species – and their ...

Colossal Biosciences blends holiday cheer and genetic breakthroughs in a cozy new video starring a woolly mouse.

Woolly mammoths are depicted in this illustration. (Illustration by Mauricio Anton/Wikimedia Commons) Rebecca Woods, University of Toronto In just the last several months, de-extinction — bringing ...

Of all the species that humanity has wiped off the face of the earth, the thylacine is possibly the most tragic loss. A wolf-sized marsupial sometimes called the Tasmanian tiger, the thylacine met its ...

Knoepfler is STAT’s Lab Dish columnist and a professor of cell biology and human anatomy at UC Davis School of Medicine. De-extinction firm Colossal Biosciences announced Tuesday that it was acquiring ...

Revolutions in geology, archeology, paleontology and related disciplines were changing long-held assumptions about the origin of humankind. Narratives of the rise of “man the hunter” arose in natural ...