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

Poachers are using a sneaky loophole to bypass the international ivory trade ban—by passing off illegal elephant ivory as ...

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 ...

Mammoth-elephant hybrids could be created within the decade. Should they be? A new startup co-founded by Harvard geneticist George Church wants to use cold-adapted elephants to remake the Arctic ...

A scientist who plans to bring the wooly mammoth—or at least its genes—back from extinction has revealed details about creating an "Arctic elephant." Mammoths mostly died out around 10,000 ...

US biotech startup Colossal is trying to create a mammoth-elephant hybrid and introduce it to the Arctic tundra. A group of elephants in Botswana could hold the key.

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.

We’re edging closer to seeing a live mammoth for the first time. Colossal Biosciences, a company dedicated to the controversial-but-unquestionably-cool goal of resurrecting extinct species, has ...

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.

Previously, deriving elephant iPSCs proved challenging because these animals have a complex gene pathway not found in other species. The researchers overcame this by suppressing core genes called ...