Scientists created transgenic mice with woolly mammoth–like traits. But does it really bring us closer to bringing back woolly mammoths?

TIME met the males (Khaleesi was not present due to her young age) at a fenced field in a U.S. wildlife facility on March 24, ...

As soon as Colossal Biosciences declared that it brought the dire wolf back from extinction, everyone felt a sense of wonder.

You may know the company for recently producing headline-grabbing and objectively adorable woolly ... the watchful eye of ...

Also on their de-extinction wish list is the woolly mammoth, the dodo ... Plenty of wolves that did not fit the right size or color for the red wolf might have been carrying what researchers ...

No matter how the resulting woolly baby might look, Colossal admits that in some respects it will be a mammoth in name only ... did not fit the right size or color for the red wolf might ...

Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences altered gray wolf DNA to breed the pups – just one of several species the company aims to ...

“Fortunately, we know a lot about coat color ... watchful eye of caretakers dedicated to maintaining ideal conditions for their survival. The dire wolf pulled ahead of Colossal’s mammoth ...