The arctic woolly mammoth named Kik, one of the only Ice Age mammals whose life story is known in detail, was born approximately 17,100 years ago in the Alaskan interior, a region bounded by the ...

In Russia’s Yakutia region, mammoths and other ice-age creatures once roamed the land ... Some of the oldest mammoth fossils have been hidden in the permafrost for centuries.

After being extinct for more than 10,000 years, Dire Wolves—yes, the hulking Ice Age predator —is making a comeback. Sort of.

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. The business of rewriting ...

"Mammoths can't go extinct. They're the biggest things on Earth," said Manny, the woolly mammoth character in the movie Ice Age. But the hairy cousins of Asian and African elephants were wiped off of ...