LiveScience Topics: Mammoths

More Mammoths News and Information

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  Bigger is Better, Until You Go Extinct

  There are more evolutionary pros than cons to being big, and mammal species tend to develop larger body sizes over time.

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  Woolly Mammoths Existed in Two Distinct Groups

  Genetic data from frozen hairs show two genetically distinct groups of woolly mammoths.

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  Study: Humans Drove Final Nail into Mammoth Coffin

  Both climate change and human hunting had a role in woolly mammoth extinction.

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  Movie Review: 10,000 B.C.

  The new film '10,000 B.C.' gives a new look at an ancient era.

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  Real or Fake? The Frightening Creatures in '10,000 BC'

  Carnivorous birds, saber-tooths and other prehistoric monsters hit the big screen.

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  Ice-Age Watering Hole

  Carrizo Plain was once a sweet spot for wooly mammoths and saber-toothed cats.

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  Woolly Mammoth Hair Yields 'Fantastic' DNA

  Hair is a better source of ancient DNA than bone or muscle, a woollymammoth study suggests.

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  Bone-Crushing Wolves Once Roamed Alaska

  Wolves that specialized in crushing the bones of giant prey once roamed the icy expanses of Alaska.

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  Humans Had Help Finishing Off Woolly Mammoths

  Woolly mammoth's genes played a role in their extinction.

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  Catastrophic Comet Chilled and Killed Ice Age Beasts

  A comet explosion could have wiped out megafauna like mastodons and mammoths.

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  'Missing Link' of Elephant Family Unearthed

  A 27-million-year-old fossil could be the “missing link� between modern elephants and their ancestors, conclude scientists.

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  Tuberculosis Helped Bring Down Mastodons

  A pandemic among an ancient mammoth-like creature probably contributed to the great beasts' demise, a new study suggests.

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  The Perils of Being Huge: Why Large Creatures Go Extinct

  The fossil record is chock full of big beasts that didn't make it. Find out why, and what lessons can be learned.

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  Beastly Colors: Mammoth Blondes and Really Hairy Brunettes

  The same DNA that affects hair color in humans has been found in mammoths.

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  Climate Change, Not Humans, Killed Large Beasts

  What killed the mammoths? A new explanation is instantly controversial.

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  Humans Might Have Wiped Out Wild Horses

  A new study indicates that early North Americans could have over-hunted wild horses into extinction.

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  Decoding of Mammoth Genome Might Lead to Resurrection

  Scientists have mapped part of the genome of the woolly mammoth, a huge mammal that's been extinct for about 10,000 years.

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  Giant Creatures Wiped Out by Hunters, Not Climate

  Humans, not warming climate, killed off the giant mammals that roamed North America during the last Ice Age.

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  Pleistocene Park Could Solve Mystery of Mammoth's Extinction

  Scientists re-introduce animals to a region of Siberia in an effort to rebuild an ecosystem that disappeared 10,000 years ago.

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  Prehistoric Humans Wiped Out Elephants

  One million years ago, elephants and their cousins roamed the five major continents of the earth. Then humans came along.

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  Surviving Extinction: Where Woolly Mammoths Endured

  Like an Ice Age version of Land of the Lost, a group of woolly mammoths survived mass extinctions on their own island hideaway.