woolly mammoth
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Company Trying to Resurrect a Mammoth Makes a Stem Cell Breakthrough
Colossal Biosciences, which calls itself “the world’s first de-extinction company,” has created stem cells it thinks will hasten the company’s marquee goal of resurrecting the woolly mammoth. The team’s research describing the accomplishment will be hosted on the preprint server bioRxiv. The cells are induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC), a type of cell that can…
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‘Gasps’ as Scientists Reveal Preserved Baby Woolly Mammoth
She’s over 30,000 years old, and yet her preservation is astounding: She has her skin, her tiny tusk nubs, her toenails, and her little tail. She still has tufts of fur, and her trunk — with its prehensile tip — is complete and malleable. Looking at the initial photograph from where she was found at…
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Climate Change Wiped Out the Mammoth, New DNA Study Shows
Humans are very rarely the good guys in extinction narratives, given our proclivity for pushing species to the brink of extinction, and often over it. But we’re almost certainly absolved of guilt in the case of the woolly mammoth, according to an international team of scientists who spent the past 10 years sifting through traces…
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7 Epic Epochs of Earth, Ranked
Life on Earth is a lot like that song by Chumbawamba. It gets knocked down, but it gets up again, often in a very different way. Through time, species have figured out how to get on land from the water, how to fly, how to give birth to live young, and, most importantly, how to…