Like many California resort towns, Mammoth Lakes is reliant on undocumented workers. Locals say the economy will grind to a halt if the town gets swept up in President-elect Donald Trump's vows of ...

Mammoth tusks that are over 100,000 years old are “extremely rare,” Mr. Mol added, and studying one could give scientists new insights about the Lower Paleolithic, a poorly understood era of ...

Now, another mammoth graveyard has been found just six miles away, though archaeologists so far see no signs of human involvement in the demise of the roughly 60 mammoths that have been unearthed ...

In Mammoth, the remoteness of the area combined with the harsh winters, keeping settlers at bay. The first to try it were some 2,500 prospectors who built a boom town they called Mammoth City in 1879.

Cells from a woolly mammoth that died 28,000 years ago have begun to show "signs of biological [activity]" after they were implanted in mouse cells. However, researchers caution that it's unlikely ...

Unfortunately, no one knows how mammoth meat tastes: Scientists are hesitant to try it on account of the animal being well past its extirpation date. “We haven’t seen this protein for ...

Thus, about 3,906 years after it thought it had seen the back of us, the woolly mammoth might be reacquainted with humans – a species that has never seen a large mammal that it didn’t like the ...

Mammoth launched just days ago, but its 10,000 installs indicate there continues to be consumer demand for Mastodon apps, despite the competitive landscape that includes Mastodon’s official ...

As both news about cloning and mammoth-related discoveries often do, the pair of stories prompted renewed interest in the question of bringing the Ice Age megafauna back to life.

The mammoth's blood doesn't qualify, Herridge said. "As a shorthand, people call it blood, but in reality what you have is a reddish fluid," she explained.