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 ...

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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 ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Though other mammoth fossils had been plucked from the ocean before, it's rare for such objects to nestle along the deep seafloor, Daniel Fisher, a paleontologist at the University of Michigan ...

Johnson reached out to a handful of archaeologists and paleontologists who confirmed that not only was the strange rock a tooth, it was an ancient mammoth fossil. Johnson said her son was thrilled ...