Mammoth

From 1.1M years ago to Wrangel’s last mammoths: microbes that endured through time

Research from steppe mammoths to the last woolly mammoths shows microbial lineages coexisted across hundreds of thousands of years and wide regions until their extinction 4,000 years ago.

Mammoth foot found in Siberia, Russia.
 Prof. Sahra Talamo in the center, with Prof. Paweł Valde-Nowak is on her left, and Prof. Adam Nadachowski on her right.

Oldest in the world? 42,000-year-old mammoth ivory boomerang found in Polish cave

 Prof. Sahra Talamo in the center, with Prof. Paweł Valde-Nowak is on her left, and Prof. Adam Nadachowski on her right.

Oldest in the world? 42,000-year-old mammoth ivory boomerang found in Polish cave

 Anonymous tip leads to discovery of possible mammoth remains in Mexico.

Anonymous tip leads to discovery of possible mammoth remains in Mexico


Archaeologists discover 25,000-year-old mammoth slaughter site in Lower Austria

Humans used the landscape near St. Pölten to ambush and hunt mammoths.


Hunter discovers rare mammoth tusk in West Texas

This is only the second Trans-Pecos mammoth tusk found since the 1960s.

 Hunter discovers rare mammoth tusk in West Texas.

Colossal Biosciences creates 'woolly mice' with mammoth-like traits in de-extinction effort

Scientists edited seven genes to produce mice with woolly fur and cold adaptations similar to mammoths.

 Colossal Biosciences creates 'woolly mice' with mammoth-like traits in de-extinction effort.

Rare wooly mammoth found in Romania

A mammoth tusk nearly three meters long and over 350,000 years from the storage of the Palace of Culture in Iași, Romania will be restored and put on display.

 Rare wooly mammoth found in Romania.

Study reveals how Ice Age humans built mammoth-bone structures

Evidence suggests humans scavenged mammoth bones from existing bone beds over centuries.

 Mammoth bones.

Colossal Biosciences Secures $200M to bring back Woolly Mammoths by 2028

Company aims to produce a woolly mammoth calf by 2028, born to a surrogate elephant mother.

 Colossal Biosciences Secures $200M to bring back Woolly Mammoths by 2028.

Over 50,000-year-old mammoth calf 'Yana' discovered in Yakutia

Local residents constructed stretchers from improvised materials to lift the mammoth calf, preserved it in a glacier, and contacted scientists for further study.

 A baby mammoth.