Two males—named Romulus and Remus, for the mythical brothers suckled by a she-wolf before founding ancient Rome—were born six ...

A teenager went looking for arrowheads on a friend’s farm in Iowa. Instead, he found the bones of a 34,000-year-old mastodon ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A woolly mammoth calf discovered in 2024 underwent its first detailed postmortem analysis by researchers from Russia’s ...

Colossal, the company looking to bring back the woolly mammoth from extinction has born three dire wolves, an animal extinct for 13,000 years.

Our team took DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull and made healthy dire wolf puppies,” said Colossal ...

About the same size as the modern-day gray wolves (Canis lupus), the dire wolf’s canine tooth had the strongest bite force of ...

But Columbian mammoths, along with woolly mammoths and mastodons, began dying out near the end of the last Ice Age, roughly 10,000 years ago. Today, their fossilized remains are a source of ...

Four woolly mammoth statues are hulking their way to ... She confirms the statues are indeed mammoths and not mastodons, another large, hairy, Ice Age animal. Mammoths are larger than mastodons ...

To create the woolly mouse, scientists analyzed the genetic instructions, or genomes, of 121 mammoth and elephant samples to identify genes that may have given woolly mammoths some of their ...

The dire wolf — a species that disappeared 13,000 years ago and was made famous by the beloved HBO series Game of Thrones — ...