After analyzing more than 500 mammoth bones, researchers found that ancient humans disproportionately hunted female mammoths ...

A Texas biotechnology company has staked its reputation on a goal that sounds like science fiction: producing a living animal ...

Ancient DNA from 500+ mammoth bones reveals Ice Age hunters targeted female woolly mammoths, reshaping ideas on prehistoric ...

Analyzing ancient DNA from more than 500 mammoth bones, an international team of researchers found that Ice Age humans ...

A species once declared extinct in the wild was brought back from the brink after scientists used decades-old genetic material to restore lost bloodlines. As cloning technology advances and projects ...

Scientists across the globe are working to bring extinct species back to life. But do the facts measure up, or is this still ...

Thirty years after Dolly the sheep became the first cloned mammal, cloning has evolved from a sci-fi idea into a biotechnology tool. Scientists now use cloning for disease research, conservation and ...

What started as a science fiction idea is now sitting inside billion-dollar boardrooms. At the center of it is Ben Lamm, a tech entrepreneur who has become one of the most talked-about names in modern ...

Genetic rescue combines several laboratory methods to either strengthen existing endangered populations or recreate lost ones. Scientists extract DNA from preserved tissues or fossils, then compare it ...

In a new study, fossilized droppings suggested that ancient ground squirrels ate the meat of much larger animals, including mammoths, bison and saber-toothed cats. By Kate Golembiewski See more of our ...

Scientists were flabbergasted after discovering that the mammoth backbones that had been housed in an Alaskan museum for 70 years actually belonged to a whale, per a study published in the Journal of ...