‘Resurrected’ mammoth DNA helps explain why the species went extinct

Reviving the woolly mammoth is still a tall order. However, technology might be far enough along to help explain why the elephant ancestor went extinct in the first place. Scientists have 'resurrected' genes from a population of mammoths that survi...

Female Mammoth with Blood Found Almost Intact


The estimated age of the female mammoth was ten to fifteen thousand years. Dug up from the ice in a far off island in the Arctic, the currently extinct animal was so perfectly preserved that even the...