mammoths
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Company Trying to Resurrect a Mammoth Makes a Stem Cell Breakthrough
Colossal Biosciences, which calls itself “the world’s first de-extinction company,” has created stem cells it thinks will hasten the company’s marquee goal of resurrecting the woolly mammoth. The team’s research describing the accomplishment will be hosted on the preprint server bioRxiv. The cells are induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC), a type of cell that can…
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‘Gasps’ as Scientists Reveal Preserved Baby Woolly Mammoth
She’s over 30,000 years old, and yet her preservation is astounding: She has her skin, her tiny tusk nubs, her toenails, and her little tail. She still has tufts of fur, and her trunk — with its prehensile tip — is complete and malleable. Looking at the initial photograph from where she was found at…
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‘Extraordinary’ Mammoth Graveyard Discovered in England
Evidence of steppe mammoths, gigantic elk, brown bears, and other ice age animals have been pulled from an English quarry, in what experts are calling a significant discovery.
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Mammoth Tusk Found at the Bottom of Pacific Ocean Stuns Scientists
Marine biologists expect to find all sorts of strange stuff in the deep sea, but a mammoth tusk ain’t one of them.