A baby mammoth nicknamed "Yana" was dissected by Russian scientists at North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk on March 27, pictures show.

Dire wolves — or really, wolves with traits like the extinct species — are back. But New York has plenty of its own ...

For reference, African elephants, the largest land mammals that currently walk the Earth, weigh between 12,000 and 15,000 ...

These ancient relatives of modern-day elephants appeared roughly 5 million ... Origins of the Columbian mammoth Scientists used to believe that the Columbian mammoths evolved from the Eurasian ...

Columbian mammoths went ... few of the elephant relatives ever migrated into West Texas. According to Schroeder, only a single mammoth tusk excavated from the Trans-Pecos region has ever been ...

“It is probably an Imperial or Columbian Mammoth, which are larger cousins ... Fossilized remains of Mammoths, an extinct species from the elephant family that lived between 4,000 and 6.2 ...

Scientists have made a leap in genetic engineering by pushing elephant cells into an embryonic-like state. This marks a major step toward recreating traits of the extinct woolly mammoth ...

Pictures of the necropsy show a team of scientists huddled around the 397-pound animal, which closely resembles a modern baby elephant ... a portion of a Columbian mammoth tusk in an embankment ...

Pictures of the necropsy show a team of scientists huddled around the 397-pound animal, which closely resembles a modern baby elephant ... a portion of a Columbian mammoth tusk in an embankment ...