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

How soon will mammoths appear in zoos, and is it ethical to create copies of ourselves?Bloomberg has recently reported that the startup ...

Findings in the thawed permafrost of Siberia have made it possible ... which is related to the mammoth. The animals thus created could survive in the steppes of Siberia and Alaska.

Professor Alice Roberts reveals the natural history of the most famous of ice age animals – the woolly mammoth. Mammoths have transfixed humans since the depths of the last ice age, when their herds ...

DNA and radiocarbon dating analyses of the bones are offering new insights into the ambitious Ice Age site constructed by ...

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 ...

Scientists also discovered pieces of charred wood at the Kostenki 11 site. This indicates that Ice Age humans had access to ...

For instance, in 2022, miners in the Yukon cut into a chunk of the permafrost looking for gold — but they found a baby mammoth instead. That tiny mammoth died approximately 30,000 years ago but ...

Another possibility is that hunter-gatherers used the site to butcher and process mammoth meat, which they then stored in nearby permafrost. Alternatively, the site might have had ceremonial or ...