The skeleton of an Ice Age woolly mammoth fetched £189,000 ($300,000, 239.000 euros) at auction Wednesday as it went under the hammer in Britain with a host of other rare or extinct species.
Archaeology
Nov 26, 2014
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Mammoth cloning is closer to becoming a reality following the discovery of blood in the best-preserved specimen ever found.
Archaeology
Nov 24, 2014
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How can a giant woolly mammoth which lived at least 200,000 years ago help to save the Tasmanian Devil from extinction? The answer lies in DNA, the carrier of genetic information.
Biotechnology
Sep 22, 2014
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Researchers recently noticed that the remains of woolly mammoths from the North Sea often possess a 'cervical' (neck) rib—in fact, 10 times more frequently than in modern elephants (33.3% versus 3.3%). In modern animals, ...
Archaeology
Mar 25, 2014
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(Phys.org) —For half a century, archaeologists have been puzzling over a mass of woolly rhino and mammoth bones found at the base of a cliff on the island of Jersey in the English Channel—most have assumed they were the ...
The Ice Age home of the woolly mammoth was carpeted in a sea of flowers that nourished the mega-beasts tens of thousands of years ago, according to new University of Alberta research.
Plants & Animals
Feb 11, 2014
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Research into 50,000 years of arctic vegetation has identified the plant life that sustained giant Ice Age animals such as the woolly mammoth.
Earth Sciences
Feb 6, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Scientists from across the world have "scanned the horizon" in order to identify potentially significant medium and long-term threats to conservation efforts.
Ecology
Dec 24, 2013
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Academics have developed a new method which will allow key past events to be dated more accurately.
Archaeology
Dec 3, 2013
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A wide-ranging probe into woolly mammoths has added to evidence that the towering tusker was wiped out by climate change, scientists said on Wednesday.
Archaeology
Sep 11, 2013
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