Scientists used genetic sequencing to establish that mammoth hair was brown. Preserved mammoth hair looks orange in colour but researchers believe the pigment was darker, closer to black ...

Cultivating primordial germ cells for the dodo bird, making edits to further refine the Tasmanian tiger’s genome, and fine-tuning follicle design to grow mammoth hair are among Lamm’s goals ...

The Penn State team used the African elephant genome as a guide to reassemble the pieces of mammoth DNA they’d recovered from hair samples. Since this ancient DNA is far too fragmented to use to ...