In just the last several months, de-extinction—bringing back extinct species by recreating them or organisms that resemble ...

Woolly mammoths have become the poster child for de-extinction. The giant land mammals have long held our intrigue and ...

In popular culture, woolly mammoths have been a source of fascination for the last several centuries. Thomas Jefferson ...

The mummified animals were found in 2011 and 2015 alongside woolly mammoth bones that were seemingly cut and burned by humans.

What Killed the Last Woolly Mammoths? The last woolly mammoths survived on Wrangel Island, just off the coast of Siberia, until around 4000 years ago. Scientists think the last population of ...

George Moon discovered the bone of a woolly mammoth while diving in Lake Pleasant in 1991. That discovery is being celebrated again, 34 years later, by TV host John Oliver and the Erie Seawolves.

A boomerang carved from a mammoth tusk is one of the oldest in the world, and it may be even older than archaeologists ...

How close are we to bringing extinct species of wildlife back from the dead? Is deextinction really happening?

For years there has been speculation about recreating the wooly mammoth, for example, because there are frozen carcasses to work with.

The Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) is a nocturnal and arboreal rodent that inhabits the boreal taiga forests from ...

In the summer of 1991, a scuba diver named George Moon was combing the depths of Lake Pleasant in Erie County, Pa. When he broke the surface, he was carrying with him an almost three-foot long bone. M ...