A 216,000-year-old tooth found along the Old Crow River in the Yukon territory in Canada has confirmed that woolly mammoths [ ...

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

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They’re dire wolf pups, back from extinction after some 12,000 years. Dire wolves thrived during the Pleistocene Epoch, when ...

Making incisions and carefully taking samples, the scientists at a laboratory in Russia's far east looked like pathologists ...

His team uncovered two mammoth hunter ... analyzing stone tools and butchery marks, examining ancient DNA and stable isotopes in teeth and bones, and conducting radiometric age determinations ...

Jacquelyn Gill, an ice age ecologist at the University of Maine in Orono, does not hide her excitement about the idea of seeing a woolly mammoth in person one day. “I understand why someone ...

The Siberian landscape is known to be a rich resource for prehistoric fossils and just recently a group of reindeer shepherds made a stunning discovery: the well-preserved skeleton of a woolly mammoth ...

The scientists are yet to release findings from the study, but previous studies of Ice Age mammals have yielded ... exceptional preservation of the mammoth.' WOOLLY MAMMOTHS EXPLAINED: THESE ...

REISTERSTOWN, MARYLAND—According to a report by The Baltimore Banner, a team of volunteers and archaeologists from the Maryland Historical Trust unearthed a 13,000-year-old stone tool from a ...

His curiosity paid off. Archaeologists have discovered that the stone is part of a larger Bronze Age ceremonial complex that dates back to around 1700 B.C.E. The site, which is located near the ...

The woolly mammoth, an iconic symbol of the last Ice Age, has long captured the imagination of scientists and the public alike. With its dramatic tusks and thick, woolly fur, this remarkable creature ...