Imagine you are taking a walk through rural Madison County, Mississippi, and stumble on a massive tusk that turns out to ...

Scientists have unveiled the oldest woolly mammoth specimen ever discovered in North America as part of a major DNA study spanning a million years of mammoth evolution.

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known woolly mammoth fossil in North America — a 216,000-year-old tooth unearthed along ...

The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) was a species of mammoth, the common name for the extinct elephant genus Mammuthus. The woolly mammoth was one of the last in a line of mammoth species ...

So far, the remains of mastodons has not usually been associated with human hunters. Mammoths Mammuthus primigenius In the research literature, there has been some confusion about the species of ...

Millions of years ago, mammoths – which were massive creatures covered in thick fur – roamed the Earth’s frozen plains. These ancient relatives of modern-day elephants appeared roughly 5 ...