Researchers analyzed ancient RNA from the extinct creatures. Could this be a “steppingstone” in the quest to bring them back?

Well, what about a baby woolly mammoth? A team of Russian scientists is working hard to resurrect this quintessential Ice Age ...

Woolly mammoth and other ice-age bones have been found on a farm in Oregon’s Grande Ronde Valley. Professor Jay Van Tassell of Eastern Oregon University’s geology department estimate the tusks found ...

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 thrived ...

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 ...

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A federal agency wants its wooly mammoth tusk back. The Bureau of Land Management in Alaska on Tuesday asked the public's help in recovering an approximately 10,000-year-old ...

SPRINGFIELD - An 11-foot-long, 22,000-year-old woolly mammoth tusk just wouldn't work in a dorm room, so its discoverer, Judd McCullum, had to settle for becoming a minor celebrity in Illinois ...

While hunting in West Texas, a deer hunter spotted a strange object in a creek bed. Suspecting it might be a fossil, he took a photo and showed it to a ranch manager. “I was skeptical,” O2 Ranch ...

Four woolly mammoth statues are hulking their way to a new home. Four woolly mammoths that once stood outside the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History, and later the Cincinnati Museum Center's Geier ...