But never in his wildest dreams did Kimble, 46, expect to come face-to-face with a remnant of the Ice Age -- a Columbian mammoth skull. The mammal, a warmer climate cousin of the woolly mammoth ...

Genuine fossil mammoth hair. This sample is 25,000 years old from the Indigirka River. (Image credit: A. Sher, F. Shidlovskiy, Ice Age Museum, Moscow) ...

Mammoths and other giant creatures of the Ice Age such as woolly rhinos survived longer than scientists thought, coexisting with humans for tens of thousands of years before they vanished for good ...

It was the start of the ice age and animals, including mammoths, had to adapt to survive. But answering definitively whether mammoths were always hairy or if it was an ice age adaptation isn’t easy ...

They often find ice age mammals like woolly mammoths, steppe bison, ancient horses, lions, wolves and others, typically between 10,000 and 100,000 years old.

"As an ice age paleontologist, it has been one of my life long dreams to come face to face with a real woolly mammoth," Yukon paleontologist Dr. Grant Zazula said. "That dream came true today.

The Mid-Columbia Basin Old Natural Education Sciences (MCBONES) Research Center Foundation is working to unearth a Columbian Mammoth from the ice age. The tour costs $10 per person.

During the Pleistocene-Holocene transition roughly 11,000 to 14,000 years ago, the climate went through rapid changes that led to the extinction of many Ice Age species like mastodons and saber ...

The information recovered from this giant of the Ice Age reveals how mammoths evolved and adapted to life in a cold climate. It also may show a previously unknown species of mammoth.

Researchers at Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences endowed their mice with the thick, shaggy hair of the mammoth and its efficient fat metabolism, which helped it survive in icy conditions.

It was an astonishing sight. Despite being buried for over 30,000 years, the baby mammoth found in Canada's Yukon territory still had hair, skin and tusks intact.