Mammoths the size of a baby elephant roamed the Greek island of Crete over 3 million years ago.
A joint Russian and South Korean research effort has been launched in a bid to create a live mammoth.
In 50 years zoos may have robotic tigers and cloned extinct species such as woolly mammoths.
Scientists have indicated that woolly mammoths could walk the Earth again by as early as 2016.
It is thought that neanderthals may have been the first to build structures using mammoth bones.
The remains of a prehistoric dog carrying a mammoth bone in its mouth have been discovered.
The preserved remains of an infant mammoth have been discovered by a Russian reindeer herder.
A breakthrough in cloning technology could see a live mammoth being born within just four years.
The theory that a large impact from space killed off mammoths and other beasts 13,000 years ago has been discounted.
A new university study has suggested that mammoths died out due to dwindling grasslands rather than being hunted.
Early hunters may have helped bring about global warming by hunting woolly mammoths thousands of years ago.
A new study has suggested that the disappearance of mammoths 13,000 years ago could have cooled the planet.
For the first time scientists have recreated a blood protein that could explain how mammoths survived the ice age.
Examination of the fungus found in ancient mammoth dung has revealed new information about what might have brought them ...
Scientists studying the amazingly well preserved 40,000 year-old remains of a baby mammoth known as Lyuba that was found...
While the idea of bringing extinct species back to life has so far been the subject only of science fiction, thanks to a...
Archaeologists have discovered a prehistoric fire pit in the Czech Republic that would been used over 30,000 years ago t...