Siberian mammoth graveyards provoke a new theory on why the creatures were wiped out, and how dogs were domesticated.

The prospects of a cloned mammoth is nearer after the sensational discovery of 'living cells' from the ancient creatures in northern Siberia.

A deal was signed giving South Korean scientists exclusive rights on cloning the woolly mammoth from tissue samples found recently in the Siberian permafrost. 

South Korean specialist hails opening of new World Mammoth Centre in Siberia, dedicated to bringing beast back to life.

It sounds like a real-life Jurassic Park, but the woolly mammoth could be stomping the Siberian taiga in less than 20 years.

This is the first picture of mammoth bone marrow from which scientists are seeking to extract DNA to bring the extinct giant back to life.

Research in some of Russia's remotest regions on 43,000 year old bones may have a very modern application in saving lives of coronary patients.

International team of scientists complete major DNA study of extinct beast and fuel hopes of producing clone to live in special park.

An expedition to one of Eurasia's northernmost caves unlocks secrets that might help explain the extinction of mammoths.