Americans soon started referring to the incognitum as a “mammoth,” after the woolly mammoths then being dug out of the ice in Siberia. It fact, it would turn out that North America had been home ...

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 ...

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.

New evidence suggests that a comet explosion over North America may have triggered a massive wave of destruction nearly ...

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 ...

North America's mammoth species were breeding together within the past 40,000 years. Fossil teeth found in Canada show that Columbian and wooly mammoths regularly had calves together where the ...

Scientists have unveiled the oldest woolly mammoth specimen ever discovered in North America as part of a major DNA study spanning a million years of mammoth evolution. When you purchase through links ...