A miner digging for gold instead dug up the remains of a baby woolly mammoth. The discovery gives scientists the chance to ...

Discover the fascinating story of the woolly mammoth, an Ice Age giant. Learn about its features, habitat, extinction, and ...

SCIENTISTS have discovered two 14,000-year-old mummified “puppies” with their fur still intact and food still in their ...

The “Tumat Puppies” also had traces of their last meal still in their stomachs, which included meat from a woolly rhinoceros and feathers from a small bird called a wagtail.

Two Ice Age wolf pups once thought to be early dogs have been identified as wild wolves, thanks to detailed DNA and chemical ...

A New York couple stumble upon an ancient mastodon fossil beneath their lawn.

A new forensic test could help identify poached elephant ivory being disguised and smuggled as legal mammoth tusks.

Whitehorse, the capital of the Canadian territory of Yukon, is famous for its nightlife. But forget clubs and bars; up here – ...

Frozen in Siberian permafrost, originally believed to be among the earliest domesticated dogs, the “Tumat Puppies” enthralled researchers and dog enthusiasts alike for more than ten years. However, a ...

To save elephant populations from extinction, the international community banned the sale of their ivory—but selling mammoth ...

Poachers are using a sneaky loophole to bypass the international ivory trade ban—by passing off illegal elephant ivory as ...