Frozen baby woolly mammoth discovered in Yukon gold fields Published on Jun. 25, 2022, 4:52 PM Updated on Jun. 26, 2022, 6:41 PM ...

Earlier that day, gold miners had unearthed a baby woolly mammoth buried in permafrost at a site near Dawson, Dr. Zazula said. Could Mr. Bond go and help them recover the ice-age specimen?

Zazula, who has been studying the ice age for nearly 25 years, said the mammoth is about 140 centimetres long. Early examinations also suggest it is female and was about a month old when it died ...

Grant Zazula is excited. The Yukon government paleontologist just spent a week in the Klondike gold fields looking for — and finding — ice age fossils. So far, he said, he and his team have found the ...

In early modern Europe, mammoth fossils were famously interpreted as the bones of unicorns and giants before being recognized ...

For 52,000 years, the skin of a woolly mammoth has remained essentially freeze-dried in Siberia thanks to the region’s subarctic climate. A team of international scientists was able to create a ...

In Yokohama, an almost perfectly conserved frozen mammoth was presented to the media. The 3-meter-tall mammoth, which was excavated in 2010 from the permafrost in eastern Siberia, will be put on ...

Researchers have discovered the oldest-known wooly mammoth fossil in North America and uncovered its genetic secrets, according to a new study. The 216,000-year-old tooth, found along the Old Crow ...

From left, mammoth recovery team scientists Semyon Grigoriev, Evgeniy Ivanov and Gavril Novgorodov pose with the frozen remains of a female woolly mammoth recently uncovered on a remote Siberian ...

Geologists from the Yukon Geological Survey and University of Calgary who recovered the mammoth suggest it died and was frozen during the ice age, more than 30,000 years ago.