Scientists are closer than ever to reviving the woolly mammoth—through an elephant-mammoth hybrid—and this isn’t just about scientific curiosity. These Ice Age icons could help preserve permafrost and ...

Amid busy construction crews racing to build an airport in Mexico, scientists are unearthing more and more mammoth skeletons in what has quickly become one of the world's biggest concentrations of the ...

Timothy Lee, director of exhibits for the Natural History Museum of Utah, shows off a display about mammoths during a preview tour of the "Mysteries of the Ice Ages" exhibit at the Salt Lake City ...

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In Russia’s Yakutia region, mammoths and other ice-age creatures once roamed the land. Now, tens of thousands of years later, divers are searching beneath the ice for their bones. Yakutia, part of ...

"Such a transition to a glacial state in 10,000 years' time is very unlikely to happen, because human emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere have already diverted the climate from its natural ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Timothy Lee and other Natural History Museum of Utah staff closely watched as the race for Utah's NHL team name unfolded — with a vested interest in one particular candidate. Their ...