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News about Woolly Mammoth, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Selected Articles About Woolly Mammoth
A new report suggests that a living mammoth could perhaps be regenerated from DNA extracted from clumps of the animal’s hair.November 20, 2008 scienceNews
ARTICLES ABOUT THE WOOLLY MAMMOTH
Both the F.B.I. and Homeland Security were in attendance at talks at M.I.T. about the engineering of organisms and its ability to help and harm.
May 9, 2014, Friday
A bill to underline an official state fossil ran into some trouble.
April 4, 2014, Friday
The superfluous bone, seen in fossil samples, was a sign of inbreeding and harsh conditions during pregnancy.
April 1, 2014, Tuesday
A team of researchers has found something new, with potential implications for evolutionary theory and health, in permafrost more than 30,000 years old.
March 4, 2014, Tuesday
Nathaniel Rich argues that the natural world, as we know it, is already a distant knock-off of what existed before we got here.
March 3, 2014, Monday
Bringing extinct animals back to life is really happening — and it’s going to be very, very cool. Unless it ends up being very, very bad.
March 2, 2014, Sunday
A change in diet may have led to the demise of the woolly mammoth, a new study suggests.
February 11, 2014, Tuesday
Recent developments in health and science news. This week: reviving plants from the Little Ice Age, a crowdfunded space telescope and photographs of molecular change.
June 4, 2013, Tuesday
It could be years before scientists succeed in bringing species back from extinction, but they are thinking of ways to give new life to creatures like woolly mammoths and weird frogs.
March 19, 2013, Tuesday
It pays to plan ahead if you drive the Alaska Highway, where you will see snow-covered mountains, tundra and eagles, and even the occasional bison grazing along the side of the road.