Guthrie responded to the discovery of “Blue Babe,” a 50,000-year-old steppe bison found north of Fairbanks in 1979.

From the vast Mammoth Steppe to the extinction event that wiped them out, the woolly mammoth remains one of the most fascinating creatures in history. Discover their relationship with early humans, ...

The woolly mouse wasn’t ever a species. But creating it shows it’s possible to analyze dozens of ancient woolly, Columbian and steppe mammoth genomes and then create observable traits in ...

Paleontologists call this vast region the “mammoth steppe” after the largest animals that traversed it. Adult male woolly mammoths reached a height of 12 feet at the shoulder, with a thick ...

The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) was a species of mammoth, the common name for the extinct elephant genus Mammuthus. The woolly mammoth was one of the last in a line of mammoth species ...

and steppe mammoth genomes ranging from 3,500 to over 1,200,000 years old to do it. The company has its critics, who argue that the dire wolves are the genetic equivalent of normal wolves in fancy ...

Colossal created the mice by modifying seven genes simultaneously and from information gathered from analysis of woolly, Columbian and steppe mammoth genomes that were up to 1.2 million years old.

Around 400,000 years ago, prehistoric people living in western Ukraine found remains of Mammuthus trogontherii, or steppe mammoths ... archaeologists uncovered mammoth ivory, which has a slightly ...

Origins of the Columbian mammoth Scientists used to believe that the Columbian mammoths evolved from the Eurasian steppe mammoths as both species had similar physical characteristics, including ...

cave lions and giant steppe bison. The discovery marks the first near complete and best-preserved mummified woolly mammoth found in North America. A partial mammoth calf, named Effie, was found in ...

The Ficron was found on a beach having been washed out of a cliff face, it is one of the largest in existance and would have been used to kill and butcher steppe mammoth and rhino which roamed ...