A baby mammoth nicknamed "Yana" was dissected by Russian scientists at North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk on March ...

Genetic analysis of the giant woolly mammoth reveals a surprising amount of genetic diversity over a million years.

According to the Agence France-Presse ( AFP ), Yana’s examiners described the roughly four-foot-tall calf as smelling like a ...

The Siberian landscape is known to be a rich resource for prehistoric fossils and just recently a group of reindeer shepherds made a stunning discovery: the well-preserved skeleton of a woolly mammoth ...

Though the discovery of a well-preserved mammoth is exceedingly rare, it is not unheard of for other mammoth remains to be discovered. In June 2024, a fisherman found a mammoth bone on the banks ...

Colossal Biosciences caught our imagination – and elicited memories of "Jurassic Park" – when the Dallas-based biotech ...

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The return of the dodo could provide valuable insights into island ecosystems. Woolly mammoth. Image by Pixel Chaos via Depositphotos. De-extinction relies heavily on the availability of ...

For instance, scientists were even able to analyze the DNA of a 28,000-year-old woolly mammoth specimen that was found incredibly well-preserved in the permafrost in 2011. The analysis showed that ...