A Siberian man recently found an unbelievably well-preserved Ice Age woolly rhino beneath the Arctic permafrost about 50,000 ...

A baby mammoth that lay almost perfectly preserved for 50,000 years in the now-melting permafrost of eastern Siberia has been unveiled by a team of scientists. The mammoth was a “unique research ...

Today the thawing and erosion of the mammoth’s permafrost graveyard—and the rush of tusk hunters—are helping bring them back. Long after the first largely intact specimens were pulled out of ...

The 50,000-year-old remains of a baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost have been unveiled to the public by researchers in Russia’s Siberia region, who call it the best-preserved mammoth ...

YAKUTSK, RUSSIA -- Researchers in Siberia are conducting tests on a juvenile mammoth whose remarkably well-preserved remains were discovered in thawing permafrost after more than 50,000 years.

All around the world, scientists are working to recreate lost animal species such as the mammoth. Using modern genetic techniques, they’re extracting ancient genetic material from museum exhibits.

At the same time, both countries have robust legislation in place that protects the glacial and periglacial ice, which includes permafrost, also known as frozen ground. These ice deposits are usually ...

The 50,000-year-old remains of a baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost have been unveiled to the public by researchers in Russia’s Siberia region MOSCOW (AP) — The 50,000-year-old ...

MOSCOW — The 50,000-year-old remains of a baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost were unveiled to the public by researchers, who call it the best-preserved mammoth body ever found ...