The creation of three "dire wolf" pups has raised hopes that it may be possible to resurrect extinct animals. But some ...

A major breakthrough in paleontology has shifted our understanding of the woolly mammoth’s presence in North America. A ...

As glaciers and ice sheets melt, the soil underneath frozen for a millennium is starting to thaw. What’s entombed within this ...

The novel virus was wriggling around a well-preserved wool mammoth specimen from thawing permafrost, permanently frozen ...

Meanwhile, real digs continue in the Siberian permafrost, where the receding ice has sparked a gold rush for scientists and ivory hunters alike. In 2023, Nasa researchers unfroze a 48,500-year-old ...

The specimen has now been confirmed as belonging to a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), marking it as the oldest morphologically identifiable fossil of its kind ever found in North America.

The fate of the woolly mammoth is a story shaped by survival, isolation, and one final mystery still unsolved. Once scattered across the sweeping tundras of the Ice Age, these towering animals ...

Researchers have discovered the oldest-known wooly mammoth ... that woolly mammoths crossed between Siberia and Alaska between 120,000 and 10,000 years ago, but researchers have since found ...

Chacón-Duque noted that a popular theory was that woolly mammoths crossed between Siberia and Alaska between 120,000 and 10,000 years ago, but researchers have since found older evidence of their ...

The company, which also plans to bring back the dodo and woolly mammoth, announced this week ... after dying out around the end of the last Ice Age. The first pups Remulus and Remus were born ...

The firm sequenced a woolly mammoth's genome and claimed it was "positive" the creatures - which have not roamed the planet for around 4,000 years - could be brought back in the next few years.