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De-extinction firm attracts $150M in funding to resurrect the dodo
2-2-2023 |
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Texas-based firm Colossal Biosciences is already working on a way to bring back the long-extinct woolly mammoth.
Prehistoric woolly mammoth traveled 70,000km
8-14-2021 | 2
Scientists have identified a mammoth that roamed a distance equivalent to circling the entire planet twice.
Did humans really wipe out the woolly rhino ?
8-14-2020 | 14
The woolly rhino may not have been wiped out by human hunting practices as was previously believed.
Mammoths survived until just 4,000 years ago
10-10-2019 | 20
A population of woolly mammoths still roamed the Earth at the time the Egyptian pyramids were being built.
Mammoth resurrection is now one step closer
3-12-2019 | 59
Japanese scientists have achieved a 'significant step' towards the de-extinction of the woolly mammoth.
Road workers unearth woolly mammoth bones
10-21-2018 | 1
The prehistoric remains of a mammoth and rhinoceros have been discovered near Cambridge, England.
Mammoths could roam 'Ice Age Park' by 2028
9-21-2018 | 13
Scientists in Russia remain optimistic that the woolly mammoth can be resurrected within a decade.
PayPal founder funds mammoth resurrection
7-3-2017 | 7
Peter Thiel has reportedly contributed $100,000 towards efforts to resurrect the woolly mammoth.
DNA offers clues to woolly mammoth's demise
3-4-2017 | 13
An analysis of mammoth DNA has revealed that the species had become wracked with genetic disease.
Woolly mammoth 'on the verge of resurrection'
2-16-2017 | 17
Scientists believe that an elephant-mammoth hybrid embryo could be created within as little as two years.
Mammoth cloning attempt in 'initial stages'
7-30-2016 | 20
Russian and Korean scientists have made an important first step towards creating a live woolly mammoth.
Scientists aim to clone an extinct cave lion
3-5-2016 | 24
The woolly mammoth is not the only prehistoric beast that modern science could bring back to life.
Mammoth remains found in a Michigan field
VIDEO 10-4-2015 | 4
The impressive woolly mammoth bones were discovered quite unexpectedly by two local farmers.
Woolly mammoth cloning project has begun
3-17-2015 | 62
Scientists have extracted the DNA of a well-preserved mammoth in a first step towards creating a clone.
World's wooliest sheep found in Tazmania
VIDEO 8-27-2014 | 22
A sheep that hasn't been shorn for six years has so much wool that it can hardly see where it's going.
Dogs helped drive mammoths to extinction
6-2-2014 | 15
Early humans may have relied on domesticated dogs to help them hunt down and kill woolly mammoths.
Woolly mammoth to go on display in Taiwan
11-8-2013 | 3
The preserved remains of a 39,000-year-old mammoth will be put on show as part of an ice age exhibition.
Mammoths and robots in zoos of the future
2-20-2012 | 16
In 50 years zoos may have robotic tigers and cloned extinct species such as woolly mammoths.
Mammoths could be cloned within five years
12-6-2011 | 67
Scientists have indicated that woolly mammoths could walk the Earth again by as early as 2016.
Woolly mammoth extinction not due to humans
8-19-2010 | 13
A new university study has suggested that mammoths died out due to dwindling grasslands rather than being hunted.
