Previous studies have established that woolly mammoths, distant relatives of today’s elephants, once roamed across North America, Asia, and northern Europe before going extinct roughly 4,000 ...

Scientists have just extracted frozen chromosomes from a mammoth in Siberia! Also in the news, the age of the last universal common ancestor of all life on Earth has been calculated, a new species ...

The woolly mammoth was one of the most charismatic species of the last Ice Age, between roughly 120,000 to 12,000 years ago. Yet, the cause of its extinction remains a mystery.

Colossal’s ultimate goal is to introduce these woolly mammoth traits, along with others, into modern elephants. This general area of science has become known as de-extinction.

They were also massive. The tusk Templeton found came from a Columbian mammoth that lived between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago, not the more famous, but smaller woolly mammoth.

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A woolly mammoth tusk unearthed in a coal mine where it had been buried for thousands of years has been carefully conserved during an unusual clean-up job. Belonging to the long extinct Ice Age ...