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In 2024, scientists studied a 52,000-year-old mammoth, and found something ancient DNA was never expected to keep- Scientists found rare microscopic Ice Age giant residues on ancient tools in the Carolinas, and it changed what they knew about early American hunters
- In 2018, workers building a major English highway uncovered giant Ice Age bones that revealed Britain sits on an ancient mammoth territory
- In 1798, farm workers digging mud in New York accidentally pulled out the bones of an Ice Age giant that no one had ever seen beforeIn 1798, farm workers unearthed giant ancient bones in New York's Hudson Valley. This discovery of a mastodon, an Ice Age mammal, captivate...19 May, 2026, 03.04 PM IST
- What construction workers discovered beneath a South Dakota housing site became one of North America’s richest mammoth fossil localitiesIn 1974, construction workers in Hot Springs, South Dakota, unearthed a significant Ice Age fossil site. The discovery revealed numerous ma...13 May, 2026, 07.06 PM IST
- When a 9-year-old tripped in the New Mexico desert, he accidentally uncovered the remains of an ancient elephant relative from 1.2 million years agoA remarkable fossil discovery in New Mexico, made by a 9-year-old boy, has unearthed a 1.2-million-year-old stegomastodon skull. This chanc...12 May, 2026, 07.05 PM IST
- Why Europe Is Quietly Bringing Back an Animal That Went Extinct in 1627The last aurochs, an ancestor of modern cattle, vanished in Poland in 1627. However, a groundbreaking scientific effort is bringing these m...11 May, 2026, 03.32 AM IST
- A giant echidna fossil sat in a museum drawer for over a century, before revealing Australia’s lost giantsA forgotten fossil, overlooked for over a century, has revealed crucial insights into Australia's extinct giant echidnas. This re-evaluatio...06 May, 2026, 07.13 PM IST
- The real Jurassic Park is happening: Woolly mammoths are returning and that's not even the biggest news — here's what else is comingExtinct animals coming back: Scientists are pursuing de-extinction, aiming to bring back species like the woolly mammoth and bluebuck. The ...03 May, 2026, 11.35 PM IST
- From Dirt to Discovery: How Cave Sediments Are Revealing Ice Age Species Without BonesResearchers are now analyzing ancient DNA found in soil to identify extinct species, revolutionizing prehistoric ecosystem research. This i...09 Apr, 2026, 05.23 PM IST
- What Lies Beneath California’s Coast Is Changing How We See Ice Age HistoryBeneath California's modern coastline lie remnants of an ancient Ice Age landscape, revealed by submerged village sites and megafauna fossi...17 Mar, 2026, 06.59 PM IST
- Dire wolves are back, and Elon Musk just ordered the next extinct animal- A pet wooly mammothElon Musk has stirred the internet by requesting a miniature woolly mammoth as a pet, just as Colossal Biosciences revealed the world’s fir...08 Apr, 2025, 01.05 PM IST
- Dire wolves brought back to life using ancient DNA and modern scienceColossal Biosciences has brought the extinct dire wolf back to life using groundbreaking gene-editing and cloning techniques. By analyzing ...07 Apr, 2025, 11.01 PM IST
- Hunting behind disappearance of large animals: StudyA recent study from Aarhus University's ECONOVO Center concludes that human hunting, rather than climate change, was the primary cause of m...04 Jul, 2024, 04.05 PM IST
- Elephant on your plate: Food tech start-up makes giant meatball from extinct mammothThe food scientists made the meatball using the lab-grown flesh of an extinct woolly mammoth.01 Apr, 2023, 05.50 PM IST
- Can extinct species be brought back to life? Scientists look to solve the riddleScientists seem to have made some progress in attempting to resurrect a flightless bird dodo, which had gone extinct since the 17th century.02 Feb, 2023, 09.02 PM IST
- CIA's brand new mission! Backs firm that aims to 'genetically resurrect woolly mammoth', read detailsThe first line of defense for the United States, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has recently shown a renewed interest in natural hi...02 Oct, 2022, 09.16 PM IST
- Scientists plan to bring back extinct bird speciesThe scientists want to extract great auk DNA from fossils or preserved organs and then use digital data to sequence the animal's genome.21 Aug, 2016, 02.39 PM IST
- Genome sequencing brings woolly mammoth clones closerA mammoth gene involved in temperature sensation was resurrected in the laboratory and its protein product characterised.05 Jul, 2015, 03.31 PM IST
- Lazarus legionThe basic technology for these Lazarus projects already exists: in 2000, for instance, a falling tree killed the last surviving Iberian Ibe...23 Jul, 2014, 02.47 AM IST
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