Long before global warming was the biggest environmental issue, the planet was in the opposite kind of funk — an ice age lasting around 2.6 million years. During this time, starting about 700,000 ...

In a historic building in Deep Ellum, a colossal effort is underway to bring some of the most famously extinct animals back to life. The wild mission comes from a Dallas-based company called Colossal ...

Researchers have discovered the oldest-known wooly mammoth fossil in North America and uncovered its genetic secrets, according to a new study. The 216,000-year-old tooth, found along the Old Crow ...

Well, what about a baby woolly mammoth? A team of Russian scientists is working hard to resurrect this quintessential Ice Age ...

In 2010, tusk hunters scouring a riverbank near Siberia’s Arctic coast discovered the mummy of a juvenile mammoth. The animal, nicknamed “Yuka” after the nearby village of Yukagir, had been frozen for ...

Buried in the DNA of the long extinct woolly mammoth is a compound that scientists hope will one day yield a lifesaving antibiotic. In experiments, mammuthusin, as the compound is called, has ...

The woolly mammoth may be headed for a comeback thanks to a scientific breakthrough at Colossal Biosciences where they claim to have isolated seven of the extinct species’ genes and applied them to ...

"The Mammoth Commeth," blares the cover of The New York Times magazine's latest issue, complete with an image of the long-extinct furry mastodon. "Bringing extinct animals back to life is really ...

For the first time, scientists have successfully sequenced woolly mammoth RNA, shattering the assumption that this fragile genetic molecule couldn't survive from so long ago. RNA, or ribonucleic acid, ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Two Cincinnati mainstays made their trek to Union Terminal Wednesday, marking the beginning of new renovations coming to the Cincinnati Museum Center’s new facility. Taking post ...