Most of us know about woolly mammoths from movies like The Ice Age and the occasional news reports of the discovery of their fossils in the frozen, remote Siberia. There is some evidence to ...

A team of geologists, paleontologists, and mammoth fauna studies specialists, affiliated with several institutions in Russia, has found evidence that a woolly rhino found in the Siberian ice back ...

One of the world's best preserved woolly mammoths - 39,000-year-old Yuka - was also found in Siberia's permafrost Woolly mammoths lived alongside early man, who hunted them and portrayed them in ...

In particular, it appears that the first major step in the origin of the woolly mammoth occurred in China as much as 2 million years ago, while the final changes took place in north-east Siberia about ...

The tusk was described by auctioneers as "extraordinarily rare and beautiful" An "extraordinarily rare" 10,000-year-old woolly mammoth tusk ... have been discovered in Siberia in the 19th Century ...

In the early days of refrigeration, diners were mistrustful about eating meat that had been slaughtered six months previously – so vendors decided to allay their fears by pointing to the example of a ...

On a lonely Arctic Ocean island off the coast of Siberia, about 4,000 years ago, the last of Earth’s woolly mammoths died out. It was a melancholy end to one of the world’s most charismatic ...

Ancient hunters killed woolly mammoths for their ... the ivory tusks of a mammoth. The shaggy giants that roamed northern Siberia during the late Pleistocene epoch died off about 10,000 years ...

Woolly mammoth meat hasn't been on the menu for at ... of frozen meat from the preserved carcass of a baby mammoth in Siberia. Of course that animal was frozen for thousands of years, so it ...

A prehistoric creature has just provided a stunning breakthrough, as a new research paper reveals that scientists mapped the three-dimensional architecture of a woolly mammoth's genome using ...