Search results for Mammoths

Biotechnology Mar 25, 2025

Scientists unlock frogs' antibacterial secrets to combat superbugs

Frogs have thrived for hundreds of millions of years, spreading across virtually every corner of Earth, from tropical jungles to subarctic forests. Throughout their evolution, they have developed remarkable defenses—including ...

Archaeology Mar 19, 2025

Rarely seen cave art holds prehistoric secrets in France

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, mammoths and rhinoceros into the walls, a fabulous prehistoric menagerie that has rarely been seen—until ...

Paleontology & Fossils Mar 12, 2025

'Old stump' spotted by deer hunter is actually a mammoth tusk, Texas researchers say

Will Juett had doubts when a hunter told him they'd found something on the 02 Ranch even more rare than a trophy buck. An ancient fossil, the hunter said, a piece of a long-dead beast.

Ecology Mar 11, 2025

Misha the elephant lived in zoos, but her tooth enamel helps reconstruct wildlife migrations

Teeth recovered from a beloved zoo elephant that died in 2008 are helping University of Utah geologists develop a method for tracking the movements of large herbivores across landscapes, even for animals now extinct, such ...

Biotechnology Mar 10, 2025

Woolly mice are a first step to resurrecting mammoths, but there's a very long way to go

US biotechnology company Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences has a radical proposal: it wants to resurrect the woolly mammoth from extinction. In a preprint paper published on March 4, scientists at Colossal report making ...

Space Exploration Mar 7, 2025

SpaceX's latest Starship test flight ends with another explosion

Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket on Thursday, but lost contact minutes into the test flight as the spacecraft came ...

Biotechnology Mar 6, 2025

Woolly mice are cute and impressive—but they won't bring back mammoths or save endangered species

US company Colossal Biosciences has announced the creation of a "woolly mouse"—a laboratory mouse with a series of genetic modifications that lead to a woolly coat. The company claims this is the first step toward "de-extincting" ...

Biotechnology Mar 4, 2025

Scientists genetically engineer mice with thick hair like the extinct woolly mammoth

Extinction is still forever, but scientists at the biotech company Colossal Biosciences are trying what they say is the next best thing to restoring ancient beasts—genetically engineering living animals with qualities to ...

Space Exploration Mar 4, 2025

Last-minute problems with SpaceX's mega rocket Starship forces delay of latest test flight

Last-minute problems forced a launch delay Monday for SpaceX's mega rocket Starship, attempting a comeback following an explosion on the last test flight.

Evolution Mar 3, 2025

Introducing Evo 2, a predictive and generative genomic AI for all domains of life

Researchers at the Arc Institute, Stanford University, and NVIDIA have developed Evo 2, an advanced AI model capable of predicting genetic variations and generating genomic sequences across all domains of life.

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