The fossilized backbones of what appeared to be woolly mammoths have turned out to come from an entirely different and ...

This photo shows a museum worker inspecting a replica of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), a relative of modern elephants that went extinct 3,000 to 10,000 years ago. The idea of bringing ...

Mammoth bones dating back between 30,000 and 40,000 years discovered in a basement in Lower Austria, a key find in a century.

For the first time ever, governments will consider an endangered species listing for a species that’s already extinct. The motivation for listing the extinct woolly mammoth is tighter monitoring of ...

Researchers have reconstructed the geographical movements of a single woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) using chemical ‘GPS tags’ preserved in one of its tusks. The findings show that the animal ...

Nun cho ga is a woolly mammoth calf perfectly preserved for an estimated 30,000 years in Alaska's permafrost. On June 21, 2022, a near complete, mummified baby woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) ...

The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) was a species of mammoth, the common name for the extinct elephant genus Mammuthus. The woolly mammoth was one of the last in a line of mammoth species, ...

The quest to resurrect the woolly mammoth on Earth has taken another, well, small step with the creation of the Colossal Woolly Mouse. The lab-engineered rodents have seven genes that have been ...