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

Yet, despite their familiarity, the woolly mammoth feels like a mythical creature. Sometimes, people put them in the same category as dinosaurs, even though they were separated by 65 million years.

Or they’ll send us, ‘We had all our kids draw woolly mammoths. ... I feel like when you do anything this bold you’ve got a responsibility to be transparent and educate.

About 13,000 years ago, woolly mammoths and other cold-tolerant megafauna were critical in paving an ecosystem called mammoth steppe, a vast glacial grassland that helped to temper the world’s ...

So the woolly mammoth went extinct around 4,000 years ago. A video on the UK's Natural History Museum website posits that climate change was probably the cause of the mammoth's extinction.

The de-extinction of woolly mammoths wasn’t exactly Lamm’s idea, but that of Harvard geneticist George Church, ... ‘Here’s the first mammoth.’ We want to be transparent. ...

The science behind Colossal is in very early stages and is mired in ethical quandaries. The company won’t actually bring back a woolly mammoth, which hasn’t roamed the Earth in about 10,000 years.

For woolly mammoths, Lamm said its hybrid could come as soon as 2028. "I think it's a realistic goal based on where we are today," Lamm said, noting elephants have a 22-month gestation period.

The Oscar-winning filmmaker says the de-extinction is an opportunity to make people curious and excited about science and conservation.

A Startup’s Mission to Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth Is Being Made Into a Docuseries Colossal Biosciences has started work on a five-year-long docuseries that follows its de-extinction efforts.