The woolly mammoth went extinct at least partly due to hunting – and now, around 10 thousand years later, scientists have worked out how humans wiped them out.

A prehistoric creature has just provided a stunning breakthrough, as a new research paper reveals that scientists mapped the three-dimensional architecture of a woolly mammoth's genome using ...

The chances of seeing an animal resembling the woolly mammoth one day are slim — but not entirely impossible. This outlandish ...

Ancient hunters killed woolly mammoths for their meat. Today in Russia’s Arctic the search is on for their valuable tusks. 15 min read This story appears in the April 2013 issue of National ...

Road workers building a new bypass have unearthed the Ice Age remains of a woolly mammoth and a woolly rhino ... Highways England confirmed the prehistoric bones will be sent to specialists ...

A woolly mammoth tusk unearthed ... She said the tusk offered a glimpse into the prehistoric landscape of Leeds. “It’s hard to imagine today that mammoths once lived here in Yorkshire, so ...

Science Mar 14 Welcome to Pleistocene Park ... mammoth Woolly mammoth blood and tissue discovered in Siberia in 2013 will give scientists “a high chance” to clone the prehistoric animal ...