The setting for the museum’s mammoth model (named Woolly by staff), first installed in 1979, is being updated to reflect new knowledge of Ice Age Vancouver Island and B.C. as part of the new ...

An international team of scientists has decoded most of the genome of the woolly mammoth, an important step toward bringing the ice-age giant back to life. The DNA was extracted from the wiry ...

They often find ice age mammals like woolly mammoths, steppe bison, ancient horses, lions, wolves and others, typically between 10,000 and 100,000 years old.

“That gives us some clues that [the age of the mammoth] is going to be in the 30,000- to 40,000-year-old time frame,” he said, adding that it corresponds to a relatively warmer period between ...