Researchers say they have developed a new way to distinguish between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ivory. ...

A company that is working on the "de-extinction" of the woolly mammoth is now in the process of developing a vaccine that could help save modern elephants from meeting the same fate as their cold ...

Colossal Biosciences researchers say they have advanced efforts to bring back a genetically engineered version of the woolly mammoth.

Poachers are using a sneaky loophole to bypass the international ivory trade ban—by passing off illegal elephant ivory as legal mammoth ivory. Since the two types look deceptively similar, law ...

A new forensic test could help identify poached elephant ivory being disguised and smuggled as legal mammoth tusks.

In just the last several months, de-extinction—bringing back extinct species by recreating them or organisms that resemble ...

The woolly mammoth has been extinct for thousands of years, but Colossal Biosciences is pursuing technology that could help bring them back.

While Asian elephants are the closest thing we currently have to mammoths, it would take a lot more than a few tweaks to hair length and squiggliness to meaningfully make a mammoth out of an elephant.

Although wooly mammoths are long gone, their recovered ivory lives on as a legal alternative to banned elephant ivory. Scientists can now use lasers to differentiate between the two materials ...

This week, meet orphan elephants that could lead to hybrid mammoths, discover a planet with a possible sibling, encounter an ancient type of mortal combat, and more.

How many elephant surrogates will suffer how much stress in the obsession to resurrect a species? Bringing back the mammoth might tickle our curiosity.

A massive wild elephant was busted raiding a convenience store in Thailand late at night — before making off with a bunch of snacks. The gigantic mammoth — known to locals as Plai Biang Lek ...