Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:00:02 +0100 (Getty) - Residents of Fukui gather their belongings and flee as a mammoth fire roars through a section of town in which almost all the homes are built of wood, June 28, 1948. Carl Mydans/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Artist's impression of the prehistoric mammoth. Japanese ...
Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:50:11 +0100 (MNHN Bibliotheque Centrale) - Artist's impression of the prehistoric mammoth. Japanese researchers will launch a project this year to resurrect the long-extinct mammoth by using cloning technology to bring the ancient pachyderm back to life in around five years time.(MNHN Bibliotheque Centrale/OFF)
This file photo shows a mammoth skeleton on a display in France. ...
Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:30:14 +0100 (AFP/HO/File) - This file photo shows a mammoth skeleton on a display in France. Japanese researchers will launch a project this year to resurrect the long-extinct mammoth by using cloning technology to bring the ancient pachyderm back to life in around five years time, a report said.(AFP/HO/File)
Chu Chung Shing, stands near a carved mammoth tusk in Hong Kong. ...
Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:40:21 +0200 (AFP/File) - Chu Chung Shing, stands near a carved mammoth tusk in Hong Kong. Stumped by a ban designed to save elephants from extinction, master ivory carvers in the city have increasingly turned to using mammoth tusks which are exhumed from the frozen tundra in Siberia.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke)
Mammoth Khoma is seen in March 2010 in Yakutsk. Discovered in ...
Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:00:30 +0200 (AFP/Mammuthus 2010-2014) - Mammoth Khoma is seen in March 2010 in Yakutsk. Discovered in the permafrost of northern Siberia just last year, this rare example of prehistoric monster is on its way to Paris to be analysed, treated for the germs it's harbouring and eventually placed on display.(AFP/Mammuthus 2010-2014/Francis Latreille)