The term de-extinction is inaccurate, but conservation is still the best way to achieve its stated goals. We need to save the ...

The woolly mammoth, a close relative of the modern elephant, was a massive, shaggy-coated herbivore that roamed the Earth during the Ice Age. They went extinct approximately 4,000 years ago ...

That's because Elma is ... a woolly mammoth. And 14,000 years ago, when Elma was alive, her habitat in interior Alaska was rapidly changing. The Ice Age was coming to a close and human hunters ...

Some of the last mammoths on Earth suffered from mutated genes that reduced fertility, caused diabetes, affected their development and even kept them from being able to smell flowers, according to ...

And the habitat that mammoths once roamed has changed quite a bit since the Pleistocene epoch, which ended 11,700 years ago. Back then, the tundra would have been covered in life, Gill says, much ...

The scientific efforts to resurrect the woolly mammoth, which went extinct 4,000 years ago, just got a $15 million boost.. A group of geneticists led by Harvard Medical School’s George Church ...

Woolly Mammoth’s glory days were 21,000 to 125,000 years ago, it could be near impossible for anyone to vouch for habits, needs, character. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now.

Woolly mammoths may have gone extinct because of a rather less dramatic reason than some other theories—stuffy noses from allergies. Newsweek spoke to an author of the study for more information ...

The company plans to rewrite 85 genes from modern Asian elephant DNA in order to match ancient woolly mammoth DNA — the same process it used for the dire wolves. So far, Time Magazine reported ...

Woolly mammoths in the Ukrainian-Russian plains died around 15,000 years ago, and those in St. Paul Island in Alaska died around 6,000 years ago.

Climate change drove woolly mammoths to the edge of extinction and then humans finished them off, according to a Spanish study on Tuesday that adds to the debate over the demise of the Ice Age ...