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.

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 ...

Mammoths (Mammuthus) are prehistoric beasts that roamed tundra ecosystems during the last ice age (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago), but their evolutionary history goes back farther than that.

Back when the Earth was being overrun by glaciers, and animals were scurrying to save themselves from the upcoming Ice Age, a sloth named Sid, a woolly mammoth named Manny, and a saber-toothed ...

"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 ...

A strange cast of ferocious predators and giant herbivores lived here during the ice age. Graham Duggan Most ... curved tusks sported by their mammoth cousins. Mastodons were homegrown elephants ...

In 2017, in a gravel quarry near Swindon, two amateur fossil hunters found an extraordinary cache of Ice Age mammoth remains and a stone hand-axe made by a Neanderthal.

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 ...