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.

Dallas, TX – March 06, 2024 - Colossal Biosciences(“Colossal”), the world’s first de-extinction company, announces today that their Woolly Mammoth team has achieved a global-first iPSC ...

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 ...

Elephant Havens co-founder Debra Stevens said, “nine times out of 10,” elephants in Botswana are orphaned due to human-wildlife conflict. Many of the foundation’s orphans were made so ...

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 ...

Because mammoth DNA is a 99.6 percent match to the DNA of the Asian elephant, Colossal believes that gene editing can eventually create an embryo of a woolly mammoth.

Woolly mammoths’ closest living relatives are Asian elephants, which could be genetically engineered to have mammoth-like traits. Credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library via Alamy ...

Elephants are a very special species, and we have only just begun to scratch the surface of their fundamental biology,” shared Eriona Hysolli, Head of Biological Sciences at Colossal Biosciences.

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 ...