When we talk about woolly mammoths never having gone extinct, we tend to think of it with rose-tinted specs — where these beautiful animals would be appreciated and regarded with awe.

The last population of woolly mammoths was isolated on Wrangel Island off the coast of Siberia 10,000 years ago, when sea levels rose and cut the mountainous island off from the mainland. A new ...

A high-tech company is confident that extinct beasts as far back as the ice age — like the woolly mammoth — can be resurrected by 2028, all thanks to a bankroll by Hollywood A-listers like ...

Then, they cut and paste mammoth genes into elephant DNA, and raise the engineered cells in a surrogate, which leads to a mammoth calf. Pictured is Colossal's "woolly mouse" next to a wild-type mouse.

Company creates 'woolly mouse' in quest to bring back mammoths. Turns out, it's really cute. "They are much cuter than we thought they would be," Ben Lamm, co-founder and CEO of Colossal, told USA ...

Scientists have uncovered a woolly rhino mummy so well preserved in the Russian permafrost for more than 32,000 years that its skin and fur are still intact. CNN values your feedback 1.

Rather than resurrecting woolly mammoths, we should take better care of the animals we have. Photographer: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images. Gift this article. How easy or hard was it to ...

With a skin sample from a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth, scientists are gaining new insights into what made the animals tick. The findings could also help controversial de-extinction efforts.

Scientists have uncovered a woolly rhino mummy so well preserved in the Russian permafrost for more than 32,000 years that its skin and fur are still intact. CNN values your feedback 1.