Mammoths (Mammuthus) are prehistoric beasts that roamed tundra ecosystems during the last ice age (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago), but their evolutionary history goes back farther than that.

Back when the Earth was being overrun by glaciers, and animals were scurrying to save themselves from the upcoming Ice Age, a sloth named Sid, a woolly mammoth named Manny, and a saber-toothed ...

A study published in the March 2025 issue of the journal Quaternary Environments and Humans offers a deeper understanding of the mammoth-bone structures at the Kostenki 11 site in Russia.

After 22 months—the typical elephant gestation period—an ice age mammoth should, at least theoretically, be born into the computer-age world. But speedbumps abound. The business of rewriting ...