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From mammoth teeth, scientists just pulled DNA that's more than 1 million years old - the oldest DNA ever found
Researchers just sequenced the world's oldest known DNA, which came from mammoth teeth found in the…
Aylin Woodward
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Hundreds of ancient mammoth skeletons were found buried under the site of a future airport in Mexico
Archaeologists in Mexico dug up 200 mammoth skeletons at the site of a planned airport. The finding…
Susie Neilson
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A near-perfect 30,000-year-old baby woolly mammoth discovered in Yukon's Klondike gold fields
A Yukon miner found the ice age animal. The most complete mummified mammoth in North America still …
Bethany Dawson
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A 3-foot-long mammoth tusk hidden on the ocean floor could offer clues about the ancient creatures
Scientists discovered a 3-foot-long tusk roughly 10,000 feet below the ocean's surface. Mammoth fos…
Aria Bendix
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Gold miners make 'super-exciting' discovery of 3 giant woolly mammoth skeletons in Yukon
Gold miners have discovered the partial skeletons of several woolly mammoths at Little Flake Mine n…
Alia Shoaib
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The 'mammoth meatball' grown in a lab probably doesn't taste like woolly mammoth at all
Lab-grown meat startup Vow used a gene from mammoth DNA identical to one in Asian elephants. But th…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Kelsey …
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A company says it added mammoth DNA to plant-based burgers and that they tasted much more 'intense' and 'meatier' than the cow version
Paleo's CEO said there were "more aromatic compounds associated with grilled meat" present when the…
Kelsey Vlamis,Morgan McFall-J…
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A new study reveals how the last woolly mammoths died out 4,000 years ago. That's after the Egyptians had built the pyramids.
A previous study found that the mammoth inhabitants on the other similarly isolated island of St. P…
Aylin Woodward
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Scientists hope to help Asian elephants fight climate change using woolly mammoth genes
Have you seen how artists, with the help of scientists, have imagined the woolly mammoths? If not…
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$1.5 billion startup says it's getting close to bringing the woolly mammoth back from the dead with elephant cells
Colossal Biosciences, valued at $1.5 billion, said it can create a mammoth-like, gene-edited creatu…
Marianne Guenot
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A company made a volleyball-sized meatball with mammoth DNA, but no one tasted it because humans could be allergic to the 5,000-year-old protein
No, it won't be served with a side of spaghetti. Instead, the cultured meat firm, Vow, made the mea…
Kelsey Vlamis,Chris Panella
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Newly-unearthed Mammoth remains could help reveal when humans first arrived in the Americas
"What's so interesting about the Bristle site is that there's a mammoth with evidence of human asso…
Lindsay Dodgson
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Peter Thiel gave $100,000 to the scientists trying to resurrect the woolly mammoth
The woolly mammoth went extinct 10,000 years ago, and in reality, the scientists wouldn't actually …
Erin Brodwin
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The scientists aiming to 'bring back' the woolly mammoth originally wanted to do it using 40,000-year-old cells
It's the animal that a team of Harvard scientists hopes to create (or "bring back" as some advocate…
Erin Brodwin
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Scientists think they finally know why the last woolly mammoths died out
For a few thousand of years before their extinction, a changing climate had caused sea levels to ri…
Simone M Scully
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A 9-year-old boy didn't realize he found a mammoth fossil in his grandma's backyard until Facebook commenters said it looked like a tooth
A family in Oregon was surprised to learn that an object they thought was petrified wood turned out…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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Researchers Found Something Amazing When They Autopsied A 40,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth
The fossilized carcass of Buttercup was dissected in a new Smithsonian documentary, called How To C…
Erin Brodwin
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'Mammoth pirates' spend months in the Siberian wilderness trying to strike it rich - take a look
As conservation groups and governments boost efforts to crack down on the illegal elephant ivory tr…
Melia Robinson
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One of the greatest extinction mysteries in history is still unsolved
Shapiro writes that it's hard to pin the mammoth's end on warmth alone. While mammoths were the mos…
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Treasure hunters are flocking to NYC in search of mammoth bones after a Joe Rogan podcast guest claimed a boxcar of them were dropped in the East River 80 years ago
"I'm going to start a bone rush," John Reeves, an Alaskan gold miner said during a December 30 epis…