Tag: mammoth

Elma was a healthy mammoth, but that didn't help her much when the hunters targeted her.

Spot the difference!

It's, by far, the most complete and best-preserved woolly mamoth ever found in Noth America.

The odds of a fossil being near you is never quite zero.

Now that's a big steak!

The 20,000-year-old remains of a mammoth bear signs of human hunting and butchery.

It's as spooky as it is fascinating.

This might be the earliest example of a mammoth trap.

They died-off suddenly -- but perhaps not dramatically.

You are what you eat...

Researchers say that the study marks a "significant step toward bringing mammoths back from the dead."

Caveburgers, anyone?

A 40,000-year-old baby horse recovered from Siberian ice may help de-extinct species.

Juvenile mammoths cared for wounded members of their herd, similarly to their modern-day descendants, the African Elephants.

He's fat AND big boned. Well, was. Now he's just big boned.

They were cuter and silkier... but less adapted to a harsh environment.

Well preserved fossils were supposed to be easy.

A team at University of Chicago made the most comprehensive woolly mammoth genome sequencing ever. By comparing its genome with ...

Cloning the woolly mammoth is a life long dream for many geneticists and biologists, but the challenges are numerous. Now, ...

(c) Semyon Grigoriev In nothing short of an astonishing find, Russian scientists have discovered a wonderfully preserved female mammoth carcass ...

So far... it's re-extinction Almost 10 years ago, on July 30, 2003, a team of Spanish and French scientists reversed ...

No, this is not the prologue for a Steven Spielberg movie. Yevgeny Salinde, a 11 year old boy, found what's ...

As it turns out, no one single factor was powerful enough to wipe out the woolly mammoth - instead, a ...

After the great dinosaur extinction some 65 million years ago, mammals finally had their big shot as numerous niches became ...

Scientists from Russia and Japan searching in the permafrost soil in Siberia have found mammoth remains so well-preserved that they ...

They didn't actually use other mastodons as killer pets, instead it's been found that early hunters used mastodon bones for ...

Fossil hunting is for anybody - no matter how old, or how knowledgeable; all you need is a little information ...

Using DNA preserved for 25.000 - 43.000 years in bones from Siberian mammoths, a team of international scientists recreated mammoth ...

An amateur Dutch archaeologist named Jan Meulmeester made a startling find which pleases scientists: an amazing collection of 28 flint ...