University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers were able to use strontium isotopes in a 14,000-year-old mammoth's tusk to retrace its life.

Her tusk was found with fossil remains of some relatives—a juvenile and a baby mammoth—at Swan Point, an archaeological site in the Shaw Creek Basin of Alaska. What’s in a name ...

Exclusive: Efforts to resurrect the woolly mammoth to modern day reaches Alaska classrooms A genetic engineering company is trying to bring back several extinct species while also engaging ...

Scientists have turned to crowdsourcing to fund an effort that could help them determine when the woolly mammoth vanished from mainland Alaska.

You can't transfer that knowledge very well from, say, Alaska to Alberta to Mexico, for instance, whereas mammoth are found in all three of those places.

Alaska’s official state fossil is the woolly mammoth. This bone wasn’t the only trace of the prehistoric beasts the couple found after the storm last month — they also found a gigantic ...

What do we know about when mammoths went extinct? The most recent Alaska mammoth fossil is a 5,600-year-old tooth found in a cave on St. Paul island.

TACOMA, Washington, April 12.-A mammoth, one of the giant elephants that roamed North America thousands of years ago, probably will be one of the exhibits at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.

Researchers in Siberia are trying to learn more about a baby mammoth whose nearly intact remains were found in thawing permafrost after more than 50,000 years. According to Reuters, the animal was ...

Researchers have linked the travels of a 14,000-year-old woolly mammoth with the oldest known human settlements in Alaska, providing clues about the relationship between the iconic species and ...

University of Alaska Fairbanks professor and mammoth researcher Dr. Matthew Wooller along with Colossal Biosciences have a collaborative project aimed at providing an educational tool for students ...

Karen Spaleta, one of the new study's coauthors, takes a sample from a mammoth tusk found at Alaska's Swan Point archaeological site. She is deputy director of the Alaska Stable Isotope Facility.