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

After 22 months—the typical elephant gestation period—an ice age mammoth should, at least theoretically, be born into the computer-age world. But speedbumps abound.

Geologist Jeff Bond sees Nun cha ga for the first time. He helped remove the baby woolly mammoth from the Eureka Creek gold mining site and bring her to a secure cold storage location in Dawson City.

The Old Crow mammoth's DNA was in the oldest group of samples in the analysis, described as "deep-time DNA," but it wasn't the oldest. The oldest DNA, from Russia, was around 1.3 million years old.

A mammoth tusk is pictured by a river on the Taimyr Peninsula in Siberia in this image released to Reuters on April 22, 2015. The most complete genetic information assembled on woolly mammoths is ...

The woolly mammoth, which is most closely related to the Asian, rather than African elephant, roamed Europe, Asia, Africa and North America during the last Ice Age and vanished some 4,500 years ...

Woolly mammoths were vital to early humans, shaping ecosystems and survival on the Mammoth Steppe. Their rise and extinction offer insights into prehistoric life.

Climate icons At the same time, woolly mammoths have also become an emblem of the contemporary climate crisis. During the recent wave of defacing famous artwork in order to draw attention to the ...

A woolly mammoth fossil measuring more than a meter long and weighing about 30 pounds was discovered by workers shovelling gravel east of Saskatoon this fall. It is being conserved by the Royal ...