Wild elephant encounters and ancient royal palaces are just some of the highlights of cycling through Sri Lanka, as Fiona Harper discovers.

Scientists created transgenic mice with woolly mammoth–like traits. But does it really bring us closer to bringing back woolly mammoths?

Dire wolves — or really, wolves with traits like the extinct species — are back. But New York has plenty of its own ...

Could the Woolly Mammoth and Tasmanian Tiger roam the Earth again? We take a look at how scientists are using genetic engineering to try to bring back some extinct species.

The company that claims to have "resurrected" the dire wolf has its sights set on the woolly mammoth, dodo bird and Tasmanian ...

Colossal Biosciences Inc., a genetic engineering company aiming to “de-extinct” the woolly mammoth, the dodo and other animals, recently unveiled its so-called “woolly mice.” These mice harbor a ...

The scientists edited mouse genes related to their hair and fat metabolism — two qualities woolly ... which are woolly mammoth's closest living relatives. But, since Asian elephants are endangered, ...

But mammoths and Asian elephants diverged hundreds of thousands of years ago ... scientists are targeting a few dozen genes ...

thick hair and adaptations to the cold. The company plans to rewrite 85 genes from modern Asian elephant DNA in order to match ancient woolly mammoth DNA — the same process it used for the dire ...