Long before highways and high-rises, Earth was home to some seriously massive, strange, and downright wild animals. These ...

A high-tech company is confident that extinct beasts as far back as the ice age — like the woolly mammoth — can be resurrected by 2028, all thanks to a bankroll by Hollywood A-listers like ...

Scientists have recreated the three-dimensional structure of the woolly mammoth's genetic blueprint. The accomplishment, described Thursday in the journal Cell, marks what is believed to be the ...

Once a species winks out, it survives only in memory and the fossil record. When it comes to the woolly mammoth, however, that rule has now been bent. It’s been 4,000 years since the eight-ton ...

In a paleontological first, scientists are potentially closer to understanding the genetics of these prehistoric animals through another long-lost relative, the woolly mammoth. A group of ...