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This week's possible name leak suggests the state's new NHL team may be called the Utah Mammoth, a nod to the Ice Age giants ...
Utah's NHL team is in the "home stretch" of announcing its official name. Does one option stand above the rest?
Colossal Biosciences successfully replicates the color, texture, and thickness of woolly mammoth hair, with conditions to adapt to extreme cold: "This marks a pivotal moment in our de-extinction ...
“You might be able to alter the hair pattern of an Asian elephant or adapt it to the cold, but it’s not bringing back a woolly mammoth. It’s changing an Asian elephant,” said University of Montana's ...
Scientists used genetic sequencing to establish that mammoth hair was brown. Preserved mammoth hair looks orange in colour but researchers believe the pigment was darker, closer to black ...
LONDON, England (CNN)-- Apparently in Hollywood, the hair's the hardest. Not styling it, but creating it, in this case on the back of an imaginary mammoth. "At the beginning of every movie ...
The mice don’t have their characteristic short, gray-brown coat, but rather the long, wavy, woolly hair of the mammoth and the extinct beast’s accelerated fat metabolism, which helped it ...
The Penn State team used the African elephant genome as a guide to reassemble the pieces of mammoth DNA they’d recovered from hair samples. Since this ancient DNA is far too fragmented to use to ...
Colossal Biosciences took that research and used it to genetically engineer the DNA of mice to edit those traits, aiming to make their fur more like the long, shaggy hair of a woolly mammoth.