Ancient hunters killed woolly mammoths for their meat. Today in Russia’s Arctic the search is on for their valuable tusks. 15 min read This story appears in the April 2013 issue of National ...

"This is not something you see every day. This takes the cake when it comes to Ice Age fossils." In early August, Eddie ...

"It is an incisor, an ivory piece that comes from a specimen of woolly mammoth; it represents so far the largest piece of paleofauna in our institution." In addition, a mammoth tusk nearly three ...

Bones of a 13,500-year-old woolly mammoth were uncovered during a dig 36 years after they were discovered under the garage of ...

reworked bones and tusks, et cetera. But there is simply no trace of humans having interacted with the mammoths on Wrangel,” Dalén added. An infectious disease, possibly brought to the island ...