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A high-tech company is confident that extinct beasts as far back as the ice age — like the woolly mammoth — can be ...

The woolly mammoth was one of the last in a line of mammoth species, beginning with Mammuthus subplanifrons in the early Pliocene. M. primigenius diverged from the steppe mammoth, M. trogontherii ...

This artist’s rendition shows woolly mammoths in northern Spain. These animals lived in Europe and North America during the last glacial period, around 21,000 years ago. A new study used updated ...

Researchers are working to bring back extinct animals like the woolly mammoth and passenger pigeon, operating under the belief that reviving such species could restore vanishing habitats.

A prehistoric creature has just provided a stunning breakthrough, as a new research paper reveals that scientists mapped the three-dimensional architecture of a woolly mammoth's genome using ...

Females and their young roamed in herds of about 15 individuals. Male mammoths would leave the herd at the age of 10 years ...

Most mammoth populations had died out by around 10,000 years ago although a small population of 500-1000 woolly mammoths lived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic until as recently as 1650 BC.

Recently, the first-ever 3D structure of the DNA of a 52,000-year-old Woolly Mammoth has been sequenced, significantly ...

Notable playwrights who’ve called Woolly home include Six Feet Under scribe Craig Wright, Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl (The Clean House) and that poet of neurosis, Nicky Silver.

Focus: Tracing the transformation of tropically-adapted mammoths into highly specialised woolly mammoths of the late ice age Museum researchers are using fossil mammoth molars to study how animals ...