At the end of the Ice Age, temperatures around the globe started to climb, leading to an increase in vegetation. Scientists ...

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 Templeton was walking along a Mississippi creek looking for fossils when he ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

An ancient skeleton of a woolly mammoth has sold for €548,000 (£483,000; $640,000) at auction in the French city of Lyon. The skeleton, which exceeded its estimated value, is thought to be the ...

But Tom van der Valk, a geneticist at the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Sweden, says that by focusing on these single point mutations, “you get a potentially limited view of all the genes that may have ...

On a lonely Arctic Ocean island off the coast of Siberia, about 4,000 years ago, the last of Earth’s woolly mammoths died out ... reworked bones and tusks, et cetera. But there is simply ...

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 ...