An international team, including the Museum’s Prof Adrian Lister, has sequenced DNA recovered from mammoth remains that are up to 1.2 million years old The analyses show that the Columbian mammoth ...

The fossilized remains in question were from a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth that was found in remote ... switched on and off while the mammoth was alive." With this insight, combined with ...

About 4,000 years ago on a remote island in the Arctic, the last woolly mammoth died out. Elephantine in shape and size, mammoths (official name Mammuthus primigenius) dominated the northern ...

Since the 18th century, frozen woolly mammoth specimens (usually skeletons or bones ... who’ve figured out how to make it all come alive. “It’s a play that really gets at the emotional core of what’s ...

After being extinct for 4,000 years, scientists are inching closer to bringing back the woolly mammoth. From a scientific ...