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 ...

Cut off by rising sea levels nearly 10,000 years ago, the island became a frozen sanctuary for the last of the mammoths. A genetic study now suggests their story didn’t end in slow decline.

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 ...

Discover the fascinating story of the woolly mammoth, an Ice Age giant. Learn about its features, habitat, extinction, and efforts to bring it back through science.

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 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.

Woolly mammoths survived on an Alaskan island thousands of years after mainland mammoths went extinct. But they died out when their lakes dried up, thanks to a warming climate and rising sea levels.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...