The fossilized backbones of what appeared to be woolly mammoths have turned out to come from an entirely different and unexpected animal. Archaeologist Otto Geist came across the bones – two ...

Ancient DNA has been pulled from a permafrost-preserved woolly mammoth found in Siberia, and scientists are thrilled. They ...

A photo of a mammoth foot in a permafrost environment. Our study shows that the morphology of ancient chromosomes is preserved in mammoth parmafrost samples from 52,000 years ago, enabling the genome ...

MOSCOW, April 3. /TASS Correspondent Yulia Bochkareva/. Yana is the nickname given in Yakutia to a unique find of 2024 - a baby mammoth. The name is a tribute to the powerful northern river. In the ...

This week in science: fossilized 'mammoth' bones found to be from a completely different animal; NASA returns Space Station ...

La Brea Tar Pits & Museum, the 13-acre museum and research site, is undergoing a $240 million facelift.

We’re a step closer to seeing a live woolly mammoth walking the Earth for the first time in 4,000 years. Colossal Biosciences, a company dedicated to the controversial-but-unquestionably-cool goal of ...

Mammoth bones dating back between 30,000 and 40,000 years discovered in a basement in Lower Austria, a key find in a century.

Colossal Biosciences caught our imagination – and elicited memories of "Jurassic Park" – when the Dallas-based biotech company announced back in 2021 it would use cutting-edge genetics editing ...

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