iStockphoto For some reason, there are scientists out there who think all of the Jurassic Park movies should become a reality. Apparently, they’re never actually watched the Jurassic Park movies. Because if they did they would realize that doing things like bringing long extinct prehistoric

Author: Sarah Laskow / Source: Atlas Obscura What would you do if you happened to come into possession of a bag of woolly mammoth hair? Vladimir Ammosov, of Yakutsk, the capital of one of Russia’s eastern provinces, thought long and hard about this problem, the Siberian Times reports. A relative

Author: Science News Staff / Source: Science News The book Rise of the Necrofauna tackles the challenges of using gene-editing tools to bring woolly mammoths and other long-gone species back from the dead. These “de-extincted” creatures would have to contend with a radically changed world that

In Russia’s isolated and remote region of Siberia, an underground economic boom is taking shape. Radio Free Europe photographer Amos Chapple, back in 2016, went inside the dark world of the Russian men illegally mining for tusks and remains of the long-extinct woolly mammoth, in hopes of cashing in

Bringing extinct species back to life isn’t a science fiction fantasy anymore, even if the technology isn’t quite ready for prime time. The newest buzz around the topic of de-extinction is actually a revival of an ongoing effort to return the woolly mammoth to the steppes of Siberia. Sort of.