Scientists have just extracted frozen chromosomes from a mammoth in Siberia! Also in the news, the age of the last universal ...

In 2018, they discovered a promising, well-preserved skin sample from a giant titan of the Ice Age: a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth. Typically, ancient DNA fragments yield short snippets of DNA and ...

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 ...

The mice were created by Colossal Biosciences, which edits DNA for species conservation, and has been working to bring back the woolly mammoth since 2021.

The arctic woolly mammoth named Kik, one of the only Ice Age mammals whose life story is known in detail, was born approximately 17,100 years ago in the Alaskan interior, a region bounded by the ...

It is a tooth from a Wolly Mammoth which lived during the Ice Age. My great Grandad dug up the tooth more than half a century ago while he was at work. He didn't know exactly what it was until he ...

Focus: Tracing the transformation of tropically-adapted mammoths into highly specialised woolly mammoths of the late ice age Museum researchers are using fossil mammoth molars to study how animals ...

During the ice age, a woolly mammoth loner with a tragic past joins a wisecracking sloth and a scheming saber-toothed tiger on a perilous journey to reunite a boy with his hunter father.