Although this technology is still in its infancy ... The line between extinct and alive is becoming blurrier by the day, and the woolly mammoth may just be the first of many species to step ...

About 4,000 years ago on a remote island in the Arctic, the last woolly mammoth died out ... Ultimately, the researchers still aren't sure what the smoking gun is, but "a short-term crisis ...

It is estimated that over 50% of the ivory sold into China is mammoth ivory. Most mammoth populations had died out by around 10,000 years ago although a small population of 500-1000 woolly ...