Doing comparisons with mitochondrial genomes from existing elephants and frozen mammoths, the relationships among these group members becomes far more clear. The mammoth is most closely related to ...

A temporary elephant skull exhibit features replicas of an adult male African elephant, a mammoth skull, a shovel-tooth elephant and the small female mastodon that came out of Snowmass.

Mammoths and mastodons (the animals are closely related, although 21st century elephants are closer related to mammoths compared to mastodons) called North America home over 10,000 years ago.

Mammoth vs Elephant: Spotting the Differences While mammoths and elephants share a common ancestor, they have distinct differences that helped them survive in their respective environments.

Also, ancient DNA from the first Columbian elephants, which are an American temperate mammoth; and also a very high-quality genome of an ancient European straight-tusked elephant that was more ...

De-extinction of the woolly mammoth takes a major step forwards: Scientists successfully reprogramme elephant stem cells - and it could allow them to resurrect the lost species by 2028 ...

DNA Analysis Revealed Ancient Elephant Species Interbred Palkopoulou and colleagues sequenced the genomes of 14 different species of elephants, which include both living and extinct species from ...

I have a soft spot for the American mastodon. The beast lived at the same time as the famous woolly mammoth, yet the mastodon is not nearly as popular as its tundra-living cousin. I can relate to ...