Following the edge of a glacier jutting up to the future Mississippi River -- the mastodon quickly dies, at least that’s what ...

I'd never found an entire mastodon tusk ... In comparison to mastodons, mammoth tusks were much more curved. As scientists had reached the site, they had carefully covered the fossil with plaster ...

Zackowitz A: I am from a town called Tiksi, not so far from where we were. People found mammoth tusks by accident near where I grew up. When I was young, I read a novel—there was a movie too ...

Discovered in 2022 by a construction worker and “amateur anthropologist,” the remains are out of the earth for the first time ...

1 of 11 A few years ago tusk hunters from the village of Yukagir found this ginger-haired juvenile mammoth, nicknamed Yuka, in an ice cliff. As hunters proliferate, the pace of discoveries is ...

Principia College called the hands-on excavation 'one of only four university-led digs of its kind in the past 25 years.' ...

When it comes to figuring out all you can about an extinct mammoth and its world from its remains, there's nothing quite like a good piece of poop. It may not look like much to you or me, but to a ...

Woolly mammoth tusks were primarily used for fighting and ... French adventures heading for the North Pole in 1872 found so many well-preserved mammoth specimens that for a time they lived on ...

In the case next to the reindeer, the British Museum shows another sculpture found in that same cave at Montastruc. By happy symmetry, where our reindeer are carved on mammoth tusk, the other ...

The mammoth teeth that have been found are well preserved, some complete with roots. They have been found alongside shoulder bones and two partial tusks, one from a small mammoth and one much larger.