The first top-to-toe revamp of a town's museum has reached an "exciting milestone" almost four years after it closed. The full interior of Ipswich Museum is undergoing an £11.8m restoration, to ...

A mummified wolf pup that died in Siberia roughly 14,400 years ago has yielded a scientific first: a complete woolly rhinoceros genome preserved in its stomach. By decoding that genetic trove, ...

The little horn!

Radiocarbon dating of a woolly mammoth found on Anglesey has given new insights into their recolonisation of Britain. Tests revealed it to be the oldest known mammoth to have re-inhabited the UK at ...

What is a woolly monkey? An animal called a woolly monkey seems like it should live in the frozen north, not the sweltering Amazon Basin. But the thick coat of fur covering these large primates ...

Complete fossil skeletons of two ice age mammals — a woolly mammoth and woolly rhino — are being erected in the atrium of the state office complex Downtown at 400 W. Congress St. You can visit them ...

The relationship between humans and dogs may feel ancient and instinctive, but its origins are surprisingly difficult to pin down. While archaeological findings place the first clear signs of ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

From Ötzi the Iceman locked in an Alpine glacier to smoke-dried human mummies in ancient Asia, desiccated desert cheetahs, and a frozen Siberian wolf cub carrying woolly rhino DNA in its gut, these ...