In comparison to mastodons, mammoth tusks were much more curved. As scientists had reached the site, they had carefully covered the fossil with plaster for protection. The tusks grew in rings ...

This story appears in the April 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Tusk and Sunset A mammoth’s tusk spikes the Siberian sky on Bolshoy Lyakhovskiy Island. Tusks that are discovered with ...

A fossil hunter made the biggest discovery of his life yet in Mississippi when he came across a Columbian mammoth tusk. The 7 ...

A woolly mammoth tusk unearthed in a coal mine where it had been buried for thousands of years has been carefully conserved during an unusual clean-up job. Belonging to the long extinct Ice Age ...

Researchers found large bones, teeth, tusk, and jaws of a mammoth during this year’s excavation ... venue in the city of Krasnogorsk just a stone’s throw from Moscow’s city limits was ...

The ancient skull will soon be the centerpiece of a planned ice age exhibit that will feature fossils found across Texas, including those from horses, camels, sloths, and the short-faced bear ...

Based on their fossils ... Researchers identify distinct mammoth species and track how they evolved over time by comparing fossilised remains such as tusks and teeth. In the past, they could ...

Most mammoth ... fossils discovered in Britain. The Ilford mammoth specimen is thought to be around 200,000 years old, living in a relatively warm period between two Ice Ages. The tusks are ...