Mammoths

The fossil egg is the first from the flamingo family of birds to be found in the Americas, and only the second occurrence of such a finding worldwide.

The expensive effort to bring the dodo back from the dead could have positive impacts in ecology and research, but could also negatively affect other animals.

Scientists are hoping to create Asian elephants that can withstand sub-zero temperatures like mammoths once did in order to help conserve the Arctic.

Paris Hilton has also invested in the company looking to use CRISPR gene editing technology to attempt to bring back the wooly mammoth from extinction.

The New Mexico site from 37,000 years ago contains bones that had been carved as well as evidence the beasts' fat was rendered over fires.

George Church, from the Harvard Medical School, founded a company to bring the wooly mammoth back to life in 2021.

The collection of mammoth bones has been taken by the government of Yukon for further investigation.

Paleontology hobbyists Derek Demeter and Henry Sadler made the extraordinary find, along with several others, on April 25.

If the Arctic permafrost melts, greenhouse gasses equivalent to burning all of the world's forests two-and-a-half times over could be released.

Russian researchers have found what they think is a spear made from a mammoth tusk lodged inside the ribs of mammoth remains.

Evidence suggests ancient humans may have hunted the mammoth and then stored the meat at the bottom of a pond.

Scientists dig up twice as many male mammoths as females, but that doesn't mean their population was so skewed.

Mammoth ivory, like modern elephant ivory, is durable and doesn't splinter easily, and so makes a good spear for hunting.

They are using different approaches to the de-extinction issue—and only one can be first.