Scientists have performed a necropsy on a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth discovered in Siberia. The female mammoth, nicknamed 'Yana', is believed to be the best-preserved mammoth ever found and one ...

And in the controversial battle to bring the woolly mammoth back from extinction, scientists have just taken one mouse-sized step forward. Colossal Biosciences has revealed the world's first ...

This week, the world met the woolly “mammouse”—a genetically engineered mouse with woolly mammoth hair. The scientists at Colossal Biosciences who created it think it’s a promising step ...

Once a species winks out, it survives only in memory and the fossil record. When it comes to the woolly mammoth, however, that rule has now been bent. It’s been 4,000 years since the eight-ton ...

Some of the oldest mammoth fossils have been hidden in the permafrost for centuries. Today the permafrost is rapidly thawing as a result of climate change, and fossils are washing into the Adycha ...

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 ...