The creation of three "dire wolf" pups has raised hopes that it may be possible to resurrect extinct animals. But some ...

The fate of the woolly mammoth is a story shaped by survival ... Cut off by rising sea levels nearly 10,000 years ago, the ...

According to the Agence France-Presse ( AFP ), Yana’s examiners described the roughly four-foot-tall calf as smelling like a “mixture of fermented earth and flesh” after spending tens of thousands of ...

Researchers have performed a necropsy on a 130,000-year-old baby mammoth preserved in the Siberian permafrost.

A new pandemic 'could happen in 20 years or more, or it could happen tomorrow'.

The outbreak began when a team of scientists and documentary film-makers excavated the remains of a woolly mammoth in the frozen Arctic tundra.

Could the Woolly Mammoth and Tasmanian Tiger roam the Earth again? We take a look at how scientists are using genetic engineering to try to bring back some extinct species.

Now that a "de-extinction" company says it has revived the dire wolf species that was extinct for over 10,000 years, could dinosaurs and the woolly mammoth be next? What about the dodo bird?

Microbes frozen for millennia reawaken ... Preserving permafrost is critical for humanity’s survival. The woolly mammoth once played a vital role in maintaining permafrost.

The fate of the woolly mammoth is a story shaped by survival ... Cut off by rising sea levels nearly 10,000 years ago, the island became a frozen sanctuary for the last of the mammoths.