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 ...
Bones of a 13,500-year-old woolly mammoth were uncovered during a dig 36 years after they were discovered under the garage of ...
a large section of tusk from a long-extinct mastodon. Lundberg and his diver companion had found fossils in the same place before, including mammoth teeth, bones of an ancient jaguar and parts of ...
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 ...
Scientists can work out a woolly mammoth's age from the rings of its tusk in a similar way to judging a tree’s age from its rings. Male woolly mammoths were thought to reach shoulder heights of ...