An iconic species. Researchers aim to identify the youngest woolly mammoth to have inhabited mainland Alaska. Currently, that is held by one dated to about 11,600 years old.

The mammoth's full name, Élmayųujey'eh, was given to her by the Healy Lake Village Council – the Mendas Cha'ag People – a tribe native to Interior Alaska. This mammoth is particularly ...

David Yesner may have the biggest mammoth collection in Alaska. Plastic toy mammoths, elegant carved ivory mammoths, fluffy stuffed mammoths. Hundreds of such figures and, as a professional matter ...

In just the last several months, de-extinction—bringing back extinct species by recreating them or organisms that resemble ...

This illustration depicts an adult male woolly mammoth navigating a mountain pass in Arctic Alaska 17,100 years ago. The image is produced from an original, life-size painting by paleo artist ...

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

HOMER, Alaska — A find here and a find there is one thing. Put all those finds together and a picture starts to take shape. Such has been the case with evidence of creatures that once made their ...

Matthew Wooller kneels in the mammoth tusk collection at the University of Alaska Museum of the North in 2021. Wooller is leading the museum’s Adopt a Mammoth program, which will date and ...

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A University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist wants to find out when the last woolly mammoth fell to the grass in Alaska. He is asking for help from an unusual source: people like you.

The company seeking to bring back the woolly mammoth and other long-gone animals such as the dodo also wants to make sure schoolchildren's interest in science doesn't go extinct.. Colossal ...

This illustration depicts an adult male woolly mammoth navigating a mountain pass in Arctic Alaska 17,100 years ago. The image is produced from an original, life-size painting by paleo artist ...