The term de-extinction is inaccurate, but conservation is still the best way to achieve its stated goals. We need to save the ...

In just the last several months, de-extinction — bringing back extinct species by recreating them or organisms that resemble ...

In early modern Europe, mammoth fossils were famously interpreted as the bones of unicorns and giants before being recognized ...

George Moon discovered the bone of a woolly mammoth while diving in Lake Pleasant in 1991. That discovery is being celebrated again, 34 years later, by TV host John Oliver and the Erie Seawolves.

At the end of the last ice age, a spike in the growth of vegetation may have created so much pollen that woolly mammoths were ...

A recent study by researchers at Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) has revealed that rapid forestation in the region ...

As unbelievable as it may seem, woolly mammoths are potentially returning to our planet. According to an article from The Times and multiple other sources, a startup company founded in 2021 is ...

Extinction is typically for good. 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 ...