Amateur paleontologist Jason Howery discovered the 92-pound femur of an Ice Age mammoth in a lake in Nodaway County, Missouri ...

“The ancient DNA came to our rescue to secure the specimens’ true identity,” wrote Wooller and his colleagues. It also opened ...

Clint Boyd, North Dakota state paleontologist, shows off a mammoth tusk discovered at a coal mine near Beulah in 2023. He presented the discovery during a Nov. 25, 2025, North Dakota Industrial ...

WASHINGTON — Frozen in time under permafrost was "Nun cho ga", the near complete baby woolly mammoth uncovered by a Canadian miner on Tuesday. The rare discovery marks the best-preserved mummified ...

MOSS LANDING, Calif. -- Scientists have found evidence of ancient land dwellers at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Researchers with Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute say they discovered a ...

Nov. 15 (UPI) --The well-preserved remains of a woolly mammoth found in Siberia enabled scientists to extract RNA for the first time and learn more about the animal. The woolly mammoth died about ...

40,000-year-old RNA from permafrost-preserved tissue was recovered from a mammoth specimen known as Yuka. Molecular evidence from Yuka revealed a correction to the original assumption about Yuka’s sex ...