The fate of the woolly mammoth is a story shaped by survival, isolation, and one final mystery still unsolved. Once scattered ...

The results of searching the family tree of the woolly mammoth have been surprising; it turns out the beasts we most closely associate with the Ice Age emerged not from a linear lineage, but a ...

After bringing dire wolves back from extinction, scientists are confident we could soon see the return of the long-dead woolly mammoth. Woolly mammoths roamed Europe, Asia, and North America from ...

Now that a "de-extinction" company says it has revived the dire wolf species that was extinct for over 10,000 years, could dinosaurs and the woolly mammoth be next? What about the dodo bird?

In addition, the company is actively working toward using a similar process to bring back the woolly mammoth, dodo and Tasmanian tiger. Is the woolly mammoth coming back from extinction?

told Live Science in an email that the find was unusual because most North American mammoth specimens of this age likely belong to other species that existed before wooly mammoths. "To our ...