The population of mammoths that went along for the ride were seemingly spared the global extinction of their species, until about 4,000 years ago when they all disappeared. Radiocarbon dating of ...

After being extinct for 4,000 years, scientists are inching closer to bringing back the woolly mammoth. From a scientific ...

Boasting majestic ridged horns that are prized in Chinese medicine, it was once hunted to the brink of extinction. But ...

“Our goal is to build an end-to-end scientific pipeline for de-extinction,” says Eriona Hysolli, who heads Colossal’s biology division and leads its woolly mammoth project. “People are ...

A US-based biotechnology firm attempting to 'de-extinct' the Tasmanian tiger using DNA from another marsupial has released cartoon-narrated videos in a bid to win over sceptics. Colossal ...

Females and their young roamed in herds of about 15 individuals. Male mammoths would leave the herd at the age of 10 years ...

He added that the research showed how the main species of mammoth became extinct. “The population dwindled down to a handful in number, and the species did not replenish itself. That was an ...

From archaeological evidence, we know that humans only arrived 400 years after mammoths went extinct,” Dehasque said. “Fire hearths and habitation structures would be easy to find, as well as ...

giving the quagga a major win over the more-famous Woolly mammoth and Dodo bird in the global race to bring animals back from extinction.

As technology races forward, a familiar face from the Ice Age may be about to make a comeback: the woolly mammoth.

The de-extinction race has been heating up in recent years. From the woolly mammoth to the dodo, the next decade might see us welcoming a host of animals back from the void and into the wild.