Fossil Collector Finds 7-Foot-Long Mammoth Tusk in Mississippi Creek, Calls It ‘Extremely Rare’ and ‘Unusual' A fossil hunter ...

Bone snatchers have raided mammoth bones from from an amateur excavation site beneath the cliffs of a seaside village under the cover of night.

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Focus: Tracing the transformation of tropically-adapted mammoths into highly specialised woolly mammoths of the late ice age Museum researchers are using fossil mammoth molars to study how animals ...

There is evidence that the site used to be a river There is evidence that the site was a river and the fossils became trapped in the silt and rocks on the river bed. The mammoth teeth that have ...

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

three-dimensional structure of the mammoth's chromosomes. According to a research paper published Thursday in Cell, researchers used the fossil to uncover new information about mammoth genetics. By ...

The hunt for the baby mammoth was finally on. As the sun set on our second day out, we anchored near the fossil site and went ashore in powerboats. We trudged clumsily in our hip boots to a ...

Millions of years ago, mammoths – which were massive creatures covered in thick fur – roamed the Earth’s frozen plains. These ancient relatives of modern-day elephants appeared roughly 5 ...

This fossil could help provide more scientific enlightenments in the future. The fossilized remains in question were from a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth that was found in remote Siberia.

At full capacity, Mammoth is expected to remove 36,000 tons of carbon annually equivalent to taking around 7,800 gas-powered ...

He called on fellow fossil hunters to help him recover the ... the bones could belong to a straight tusked elephant, Steppe mammoth or Southern mammoth, or a species closer to an Indian elephant ...