Don't expect to see woolly mammoths walk the earth again anytime soon, but don't write off the mammoth revival project as a Pleistocene pipe dream, either: That's the message from a new TV documentary ...

Science fiction is often discredited as purely fantasy, but there are elements of science fiction that reflect scientific and technological advances that are researched and developed in the real world ...

A friend insists a team of scientists is dedicated to cloning a woolly mammoth. I’d love to believe this is true, and if it is, what are the plans for these critters? Zoos? Releasing them into the ...

Dec. 31 -- More than one scientist has noted that there are already millions of clones alive today. They're called twins. Identical twins happen to have the same DNA — the same long, spiraling set of ...

As an expert in the field of “ancient DNA,” molecular paleontologist Beth Shapiro finds herself answering one question more than any other: “Can we clone a mammoth?” In her new book How to Clone a ...

The Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah has an interactive Web site that teaches the basics of somatic cell cloning, the type of cloning used to create Dolly the sheep. The ...