An adult male woolly mammoth walked across a mountain pass in Arctic Alaska 17,100 years ago. The image is produced from an original life-size painting by paleo artist James Havens. The painting is in the Museum of the North at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks....
The image shows a reconstruction of the steppe mammoths that preceded the woolly mammoth, based on new genetic findings. (Beth Zaiken / Center for Paleogenetics) Scientists sequenced DNA from the teeth of mammoths discovered in the 1970s in the East Siberian...
Scientists carried out an initial examination of the remains of a mammoth found a few days ago in Lake Pechevalavato, 25 kilometres from the village of Seyakha in the Yamal region. (Photo: Artem Cheremisov) Russian scientists are working to retrieve the well-preserved...