If you were ever curious about what the extinct woolly mammoths looked like, you may soon have your wish fulfilled, as biotech company Colossal Biosciences has announced a major breakthrough in their goal to resurrect the furry 6-ton, 16-foot creatures.
On Wednesday (March 6), the Dallas-based company revealed it had created a kind of stem cell for the closest living relative of the woolly mammoth: the Asian elephant.
According to Colossal, scientists have, for the first time, created induced pluripotent stem cells for Asian elephants, edging closer to creating an animal that “will walk like a woolly mammoth, look like one, sound like one, but most importantly, it will be able to inhabit the same ecosystem previously abandoned by the mammoth’s extinction.”
