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

Stock image: Asian elephants in Thailand. This species is being afflicted by a deadly disease caused by elephant endotheliotropic herpersvirus, for which Colossal Biosciences is working on a vaccine.

A mammoth task: stable isotope analyses as a tool to prevent illegal trade of elephant ivory. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution , 2025; 13 DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2025.1533703 Cite This Page : ...

How a Colossal Biosciences’ Game of Thrones-inspired Direwolf paved the way to reviving the Woolly Mammoth by 2028.

Once edited to have mammoth-like genetic traits, the elephant’s cells could be used to make eggs and sperm and an embryo that could be implanted into some kind of artificial womb.

Wildlife forensic scientists in China suggest that authorities can differentiate elephant ivory from mammoth ivory by analyzing stable isotopes (forms of an element that don’t break down over ...

Samples of elephant and mammoth ivory utilized in the study – although complete tusks of the two materials may differ in appearance, such is not the case with small or carved pieces Ben Booth 2 / 2 ...

The Asian elephant, for instance, is the living animal with the fewest number of genetic differences from the mammoth. You can use it as a sort of master recipe from which to build.

A mammoth task. The scientists tested 79 pieces of ivory, 44 identified as elephant ivory and 35 identified as mammoth ivory. Some were seized by Hong Kong law enforcement and others bought from ...

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.

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.