New analysis of a 14,000-year-old woolly mammoth tusk has pieced together the life of a female mammoth that likely died at the hands of hunters close to Alaska's oldest archaeological site.

The goal to revive the woolly mammoth by 2027 is a huge one, and the company has put much stock into how it plans to bring these extinct creatures back to life – as well as why it wants to do that.

The woolly mammoth and Asian elephant share 99.6% of the same DNA, ... there's huge opportunities for advancements using software," Lamm said. ...

The woolly mammoth may surprisingly have regularly interbred with a completely different and much larger elephant species, researchers now find. Woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) roamed the ...

So the woolly mammoth went extinct around 4,000 years ago. A video on the UK's Natural History Museum website posits that climate change was probably the cause of the mammoth's extinction.

Scientists at a biotech company say they have created a key stem cell for Asian elephants that could help save the endangered species and become a steppingstone for bringing back the woolly mammoth.

With a skin sample from a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth, scientists are gaining new insights into what made the animals tick. The findings could also help controversial de-extinction efforts.

A few years ago, a team of scientists launched an effort to “de-extinct” the woolly mammoth by altering elephant DNA. Should they? ... She has since lavished time on other gigantic goners.

Officials in Tultepec outside Mexico City say the first woolly mammoth traps built by humans have been discovered. According to BBC, these 15,000-year-old contraptions held the remains of at least ...

Researchers at Colossal Biosciences have successfully engineered mice to express key woolly mammoth-like traits, bringing the field of de-extinction one step closer to reality. By modifying seven ...

A boomerang carved from a mammoth tusk is one of the oldest in the world, and it may be even older than archaeologists ...