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Ancient DNA has been pulled from a permafrost-preserved woolly mammoth found in Siberia, and scientists are thrilled. They recovered and sequenced RNA, a fragile molecule that many biologists assumed ...

Few extinct animals other than the dinosaurs have attracted more attention than the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius). Between 700,000 and 4,000 years ago, at the peak of the last ice age, these ...

When the elevator doors part on the second floor of a two-story brick and glass building in an office park on the outskirts of downtown Dallas, it feels like a portal opening to a different world. The ...

In just the last several months, de-extinction—bringing back extinct species by recreating them or organisms that resemble them—has moved closer from science fiction to science fact. Colossal ...

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