A woolly mouse compared with a normal mouse, at Colossal Biosciences labs. Editor at Large Extinction is typically for good. Once a species winks out, it survives only in memory and the fossil record.

How did the woolly mammoth, an ambassador of the Ice Age, end up confined to modern-day Wrangel Island? And what ultimately caused their extinction? New evidence suggests it wasn’t poor genetics as ...

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No, this isn’t a new Jurassic Park plot: A real-life woolly mammoth could be on Earth by the decade’s end. Biotechnology start-up Colossal Biosciences Inc., which is using DNA and genomics in an ...