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 ...

In 2011, a remarkable 28,000-year-old woolly mammoth was dug out of the Siberian permafrost, where many extraordinary animals from the ice age have been found before. Since the species met its end ...

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 ...

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 ...