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The mighty megafauna of the last ice age, including the wooly mammoths, short faced bears and cave lions, largely went extinct because of rapid climate-warming events, a new study finds.

The woolly mammoth's genome has been sequenced, revealing several key adaptations to the cold that could help scientists design elephant-mammoth hybrids.

An ancient mammoth preserved in permafrost could yield the best hoping of cloning the extinct beast yet.

An ancient mammoth preserved in permafrost could be the best chance of cloning the extinct beast yet.

Take a look at images of a 39,000-year-old woolly mammoth with a preserved brain discovered in the Siberian permafrost.

A fossil tusk rescued from the sea proves mammoths swam to Southern California's Channel Islands much earlier than thought, and they beat humans there.

CT Scanning has revealed the grim last moments to two ancient mammoth calves that choked on mud more than 40,000 years ago.

The last of the woolly mammoths living in the Late Pleistocene in northern Europe may have suffered stillbirths and catastrophic birth defects, as signaled by extra ribs found in mammoth fossils.