For thousands of years, woolly mammoths existed only in fossils, frozen remains, and cave paintings. But now, scientists are ...

Genetic tests of mammoth remains have found a stark contrast in the sex ratio between sites where the animals died naturally ...

The study used genetic data from bones accumulated by people at 11 sites in Poland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany and ...

Woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) were among the top prizes for human Ice Age hunters. The giant, 10,000-pound mammals ...

After analyzing more than 500 mammoth bones, researchers found that ancient humans disproportionately hunted female mammoths ...

To save elephant populations from extinction, the international community banned the sale of their ivory—but selling mammoth ivory remains legal, and the two are difficult to tell apart, especially ...

While studying the bones of mammoths hunted by humans, scientists noticed a striking trend: the majority of the slain animals ...

Poachers are using a sneaky loophole to bypass the international ivory trade ban—by passing off illegal elephant ivory as legal mammoth ivory. Since the two types look deceptively similar, law ...