In the early 1990s, Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg brought the concept of de-extinction to the masses with Jurassic Park. Today, the franchise lives on with this summer's Jurassic World Rebirth ...

Pictured are two of Colossal's "woolly mice". Dallas-based biotech startup Colossal aims to bring the woolly mammoth back from extinction through genetic engineering. As part of that process, the ...

With its long, fluffy coat and golden hue, you might be forgiven for thinking this was some kind of exotic hamster from the Siberian wastelands. In fact, this is the world’s first “woolly mouse”, a ...

A woolly mouse compared with a normal mouse, at Colossal Biosciences labs. Editor at Large Extinction is typically for good. Once a species winks out, it survives only in memory and the fossil record.

This week, the world met the woolly “mammouse”—a genetically engineered mouse with woolly mammoth hair. The scientists at Colossal Biosciences who created it think it’s a promising step toward their ...

The quest to resurrect the woolly mammoth on Earth has taken another, well, small step with the creation of the Colossal Woolly Mouse. The lab-engineered rodents have seven genes that have been ...

JERSEY CITY - You may never be too old to learn, but a new exhibit at the Liberty Science Center proves you're never too old to enlighten either. Lyuba, a 42,000-year old baby woolly mammoth ...

Well, what about a baby woolly mammoth? A team of Russian scientists is working hard to resurrect this quintessential Ice Age behemoth. But what if they never disappeared in the first place, and still ...

“I’m excited,” Beth Shapiro, Colossal’s chief science officer, told PEOPLE in an exclusive interview in March. She described the mouse as “really our first validation” that the company can ...

Colossal Biosciences blends holiday cheer and genetic breakthroughs in a cozy new video starring a woolly mouse.