What killed the last woolly mammoths? Mammoth-elephant hybrids could be coming soon. Should they be? Mammoth-elephant hybrids could be coming soon. Should they be? Ice Age mammoth’s life story ...

Recently, the first-ever 3D structure of the DNA of a 52,000-year-old Woolly Mammoth has been sequenced, significantly ...

Females and their young roamed in herds of about 15 individuals. Male mammoths would leave the herd at the age of 10 years ...

A new study has revealed the real reason woolly mammoths went extinct. The now-extinct species of mammoth lived from the ...

A prehistoric creature has just provided a stunning breakthrough, as a new research paper reveals that scientists mapped the three-dimensional architecture of a woolly mammoth's genome using ...

Researchers are working to bring back extinct animals like the woolly mammoth and passenger pigeon, operating under the belief that reviving such species could restore vanishing habitats.

De-extinction scientists have turned their attention to species from more 'recent' times — notably the Quaternary Period, ...

“Our goal is to build an end-to-end scientific pipeline for de-extinction,” says Eriona Hysolli, who heads Colossal’s biology division and leads its woolly mammoth project. “People are ...

Is a real-life "Jurassic Park" on the horizon? Yes, if the US company Colossal has its way. Its researchers are planning to ...

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 ...

After the last known Tasmanian tiger died in captivity over 80 years ago, this marsupial predator might be a few steps away from a return to the world of the living.

Notable playwrights who’ve called Woolly home include Six Feet Under scribe Craig Wright, Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl (The Clean House) and that poet of neurosis, Nicky Silver.