The woolly mammoth’s extinction remains one of paleontology’s most contested questions. Most mainland populations vanished between 13,000 and 10,000 years ago. A small population persisted on Wrangel ...

A 40,000-year-old juvenile woolly mammoth named Yuka is not only remarkable because she was uncovered nearly intact or her grisly cause of death. Her muscles provided paleogeneticists with the oldest ...

It's been thousands of years since the woolly mammoths that used to roam the Northern Hemisphere went extinct. However, their former habitat is still ...

A tusk from a woolly mammoth, estimated to be 10,000 years old, has gone on display. The tusk originated from somewhere around the North Sea, according to Will Dorrell, co-owner of Hoo Zoo and ...

Can Ben Lamm save the planet? He thinks so.Short, stocky and unassuming with a puckish sense of humor, the shaggy-haired Dallas-based entrepreneur seemsBy bringing back the woolly mammoth (48,000 of ...

Ben Lamm, the CEO and co-founder of the technology firm Colossal Biosciences, does not want to play favorites with the company’s various de-extinction projects. One look around a newly finished ...

DALLAS – The scientists at Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences, the company that brought us modern-day dire wolves, do not tire of comparisons to the fictional bioengineering firm in "Jurassic Park," ...

Woolly mammoths are most closely related to the Asian elephant, sharing a common ancestor hundreds of thousands of years ago. The woolly mammoth roamed across North America, Europe, and Asia, thriving ...

In 2010, tusk hunters scouring a riverbank near Siberia’s Arctic coast discovered the mummy of a juvenile mammoth. The animal, nicknamed “Yuka” after the nearby village of Yukagir, had been frozen for ...