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 ...

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

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

This remarkably well-preserved cub could help scientists answer questions about sabertooth anatomy, hunting, and even coat color.

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 ...

The traps were around two metres deep and 25 metres wide At least 14 woolly mammoth skeletons have been uncovered in Mexico in traps built by humans about 15,000 years ago. The two pits in ...

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

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 ...

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.

With the sale of elephant tusks under close scrutiny, “ethical ivory” from the extinct woolly mammoth is now feeding an insatiable market in China. This rush on mammoth ivory is luring a fresh ...

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 ...