Professor Alice Roberts reveals the natural history of the most famous of ice age animals - the woolly mammoth. Mammoths have transfixed humans since the depths of the last ice age, when their ...

The woolly mammoth is a mammal that was 11 feet tall at the shoulder and weighed up to 6 tons. It was an adapted animal in its environment. Its closest living relatives are the Asian elephants and ...

His latest paper, published in the journal Cell on Friday, compares the animals' DNA to determine what makes a mammoth a mammoth. There are a few parts of the myoglobin DNA code that vary within ...

And if so, could struggling ecosystems be ‘rewilded’ with long-extinct animals? In 2021 ... s biology division and leads its woolly mammoth project. “People are beginning to see how valuable ...