Most mammoth populations had died out by around 10,000 years ago although a small population of 500-1000 woolly mammoths lived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic until as recently as 1650 BC.

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 ...

Ten thousand years ago, as the Pleistocene ended and the Holocene began, sea levels rose and trapped a small group of woolly ...

Ancient hunters killed woolly mammoths for their meat. Today in Russia’s Arctic the search is on for their valuable tusks. 15 min read This story appears in the April 2013 issue of National ...

“But tomorrow it’ll be causing economic effects.” Perhaps known best for its efforts to bring back the woolly mammoth, Dallas-based Colossal’s core mission is preserving biodiversity ...

Colossal Biosciences, the US company aiming to bring back extinct species, says that it expects its first woolly mammoth calves will be born during the next three years. "Within the next two years ...