Somewhere in the frozen plains of southwestern Russia, a 40-foot circle of mammoth bones and tusks has stood for over 24,000 ...

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 ...

DNA and radiocarbon dating analyses of the bones are offering new insights into the ambitious Ice Age site constructed by ...

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"It was suspected, based on the strong curvature of the massive tusk that Eddie and the team were dealing with a Columbian ...

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 ...

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 ...

The current regulations ban export of mammoth tusks longer than three meters, and scientists fear they will be short of material for studies, as tusks, presented for examination before being ...

Mammoth Energy Services (NASDAQ:TUSK) has plenty of cash now that it has received $168.4 million (approximately $3.50 per share) in recent settlement payments from the Puerto Rico Electric Power ...

YAKUTSK, June 21. /TASS/. The rush for mammoth tusks should be regulated by federal legislation, as scientists highlight the damage from the illegal production is more than one billion rubles ($17 ...