Scientists have unveiled the oldest woolly mammoth specimen ever discovered in North America as part of a major DNA study spanning a million years of mammoth evolution.

The analysis confirmed that the tooth belonged to a woolly mammoth and dated it to about 220,000 years old. "It really is very old. It's not the last ice age, it's not even the ice age before ...

The fate of the woolly mammoth is a story shaped by survival, isolation, and one final mystery still unsolved. Once scattered across the sweeping tundras of the Ice Age, these towering animals ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...