The fossilized backbones of what appeared to be woolly mammoths have turned out to come from an entirely different and ...

Long before global warming was the biggest environmental issue, the planet was in the opposite kind of funk — an ice age lasting around 2.6 million years. During this time, starting about 700,000 ...

For decades, a set of “baby mammoth” bones in an Alaska museum promised to rewrite the story of when these Ice Age giants ...

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Bones thought to be world's youngest mammoths for 70 years turn out to be whales. DNA reveals shocking truth about Alaska ...

A new study in Genome Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, resurrected the mutated genes of the last herd of woolly mammoths and found that their small population had developed ...