In 2010 Yukaghir hunters found the nearly intact carcass of a young woolly mammoth frozen in the northern Siberian permafrost. With its reddish-brown fur still clinging to its skin, the dog-sized calf ...

Woolly mammoths are depicted in this illustration. (Illustration by Mauricio Anton/Wikimedia Commons) Rebecca Woods, University of Toronto In just the last several months, de-extinction — bringing ...

Given that woolly mammoths have been extinct for a thousands of years, there's a lot we don't know about them, but we might ...

The contents of an ancient wolf pup's stomach yields surprising clues into the genetic lineage of extinct species.

Researchers from Stockholm University have—for the first time ever—managed to successfully isolate and sequence RNA molecules from Ice Age woolly mammoths. These RNA sequences are the oldest ever ...

It was 2012 when Love Dalén, a paleogeneticist at Stockholm University, first laid eyes upon a special specimen on a lab table in eastern Siberia. "Our Russian collaborators said, 'Come here into this ...

Long before modern humans built cities or carved out farms, woolly mammoths wandered across frozen plains with thick coats and steady steps. Their bones, tusks, and frozen bodies have offered clues to ...

New research suggests that the last mammoth population in North America wasn't hunted to death and didn't die out from a lack of food. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a ...

More than 14,000 years ago, a wolf pup ate a piece of woolly rhino. Scientists have analyzed the rhino's DNA to figure out why it went extinct.

In just the last several months, de-extinction — bringing back extinct species by recreating them or organisms that resemble them — has moved closer from science fiction to science fact. Colossal ...