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Biotechnology society Colossal Biosciences unveiled mental image and footage of " lanate mouse " on Tuesday ( March 4 ) , with fur standardized to the wooden-headed hair that kept woolly mammoths warm during thelast icing years .

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Digitized image of a woolly mammoth

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Colossal scientists used black eye because their shorter gestation time period makes it much easier to try the cistron edits and engineering tools needed to do the same procedure on elephants , in the hope that one day they could " resurrect " woolly mammoth ( Mammuthus primigenius ) .

Illustration of a hunting scene with Pleistocene beasts including a mammoth against a backdrop of snowy mountains.

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two adult dire wolves

A gray wolf genetically engineered to look like a dire wolf holds a stick in its mouth as it walks in the snow.

An illustration of a woolly mammoth standing in front of a white background.

a group of scientists gather around a dissection table with a woolly mammoth baby

The mammoth remains discovered in Austria.

Illustration of a T. rex in a desert-like landscape.

An artist�s reconstruction of a comb-jawed pterosaur (Balaeonognathus) walking on the ground.

an illustration of Tyrannosaurus rex, Edmontosaurus annectens and Triceratops prorsus in a floodplain

A photo collage of a crocodile leather bag in front of a T. rex illustration.

The fossilised hell ant.

A photograph of a newly discovered mosasaur fossil in a human hand.

Fragment of a stone with relief carving in the ground

An illustration of microbiota in the gut

an illustration of DNA

images showing auroras on Jupiter

An image of the Eagle Nebula, a cluster of young stars.

a reconstruction of an early reptile