A hunter searching for deer instead made a discovery of what he thought was a fossil, located in a drainage area of a creek on O2 Ranch in West Texas. “I was skeptical when a deer hunter showed me a ...

Every creature that has disappeared leaves behind more than just a memory they leave lessons about ecosystems, extinction ...

In Canada, for example, researchers revealed North America’s most northeasterly woolly mammoth find after taking a second ...

Long before highways and high-rises, Earth was home to some seriously massive, strange, and downright wild animals. These creatures ruled the Ice Age and thrived in frozen landscapes. But as the ...

AMESBURY, Mass. — In Massachusetts, research is underway that could not just reintroduce a species to the planet, but introduce a new concept; "De-extinction." "At the moment this is an academic ...

The fate of humanity might have looked radically different if Ice Age titans like the mammoth and saber-toothed cat had survived. Imagine a world where the megafauna of the Ice Age survived, not just ...

A worn-down mammoth tooth discovered nearly 150 years ago on an island in Nunavut offers new insights into where and how the ...

Woolly mammoths were killed off by climate change, NOT humans, according to new research. Global warming happened so fast that vegetation disappeared and they starved to death. The giant herbivore's ...

Colossal Biosciences aims to rewrite history as they work to resurrect extinct species – and their sights are set on the woolly mammoth and the dodo. Earlier this year, Colossal – co-founded by Ben ...

We tend to lump all mammoths together as big, hairy elephant-like beasts with enormous tusks. But there were a number of mammoth species, including less furry ones that inhabited temperate regions.