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 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 ...

divers are searching beneath the ice for their bones. Yakutia, part of which is north of the Arctic Circle, encompasses the coldest inhabited place on earth. Some of the oldest mammoth fossils ...

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 ...

An elephant that gets turned into a Mammoth would be able to walk around the Tundra to pack snow and grass. This would slow any release of global warming gases and slow melting of ice caps. They ...