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Perfectly Preserved Mammoth Blood Unearthed in Ice

By Tia Ghose published

The partially gnawed mammoth had blood and tissue that was perfectly preserved because it had never thawed and refrozen

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Mammoth or Mastodon: What's the Difference?

By Elizabeth Peterson published

Though similar in appearance, they're not closely related.

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Boy Discovers Frozen Mammoth in Russia

By Live Science Staff published

An 11-year-old boy in Russia's far north found the frozen carcass of a woolly mammoth with soft tissue, skin and hair intact.

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Woolly mammoths wandered the planet for about 250,000 years and vanished from Siberia by about 10,000 years ago.

Mammoths Wiped Out By Multiple Killers

By Charles Q. Choi published

Scientists have long debated what caused the demise of these ice age beasts.

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These dwarf mammoths were not woolly mammoths. Rather, the researchers suspect the beasts were more adapted to warmer environments, appearing more like modern African or Asian elephants, with a sparse covering of hair. They would've sported curvy tusks, t

World's Smallest Mammoth Discovered

By Charles Q. Choi published

The animal lived on what is now the island of Crete, considered by some Zeus' birthplace.

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The frozen mammoth carcass is the first complete specimen to be studied.

Young Mammoth Likely Butchered by Humans

By Jennifer Viegas published

The carcass of the juvenile "Yuka" may have been cut up, eaten and then buried by ancient people.

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drawing of a woolly mammoth

Woolly Mammoths Could Be Cloned Someday, Scientist Says

By Charles Q. Choi published

Even so, many technical hurdles and ethical concerns remain.

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Lyuba the baby mammoth gets a CT scan, revealing her skeleton.

Skin and Bones: Inside Baby Mammoths

By Stephanie Pappas published

Computed tomography (CT) scans of two ancient baby mammoths

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Khroma and Lyuba the baby mammoths get CT scanned.

Baby Mammoth Innards Revealed in X-Ray Images

By Stephanie Pappas published

One Ice Age mammoth gets a sex reassignment after researchers realizes the 'he' was a she.

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Drawing of a woolly mammoth. These beasts were bigger than mastodons and and curved rather than straight tusks. They died off around 10,000 years ago, and scientists aren t yet sure if climate change was to blame -- as the Ice Age ended -- or if human hun

Mammoth Mystery: What Killed Off the Woolly Beast?

By Charles Q. Choi published

Climate swings and humans are the most likely suspects.

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