Colossal, the company known for its mission to resurrect a woolly mammoth (or at least, an elephant with some very mammoth-like traits), is back with $60 million in Series A funding.

Colossal is gene editing the Asian elephant, which is the woolly mammoth's closest genetic relative, to give it traits adapted to cold regions, such as a hairy body and abundant fat accumulation.

Ginsberg became an animal celebrity in the early 1960s after starring alongside John Wayne in a movie called Hatari, a ...

AMSTERDAM--Throw another mammoth on the barbie?Elephant in the dining room: Startup makes mammoth meatball THE ASSOCIATED PRESS March 29, 2023 at 11:10 JST ...

The mammoth meatball is a one-off and has not been tasted, even by its creators, nor is it planned to be put into commercial production. Instead, it was presented as a source of protein that would ...

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.

He added: “Our aim is to produce a hybrid elephant/ mammoth embryo. Actually, it would be more like an elephant with a number of mammoth traits. “We’re not there yet, but it could happen in ...

David Stout (Agence France-Presse) Islamabad, Pakistan Mon, November 30, 2020 Published on Nov. 30, 2020Published on 2020-11-30T09:29:23+07:00 ...

An elephant-mammoth hybrid, genetically engineered without tusks and hardy enough to survive away from Africa or India, could be the key to tackling poaching, scientists believe.

The Harvard Woolly Mammoth Revival team has even managed to successfully edit the genome of an elephant in the lab to insert mammoth DNA which codes for a heavy coat, excess body fat and blood.