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 mammal ...

A deer hunter's discovery of a mammoth tusk at a West Texas ranch has prompted several questions, such as "Can I own one?" and "Were mammoths common in the state?" Dr. Aaron Pan, the executive ...

A fossilized mammoth tusk discovered in a Seattle construction site was retrieved Friday evening from a 30-foot-deep pit. Scientists and construction crews used a crane to retrieve and hoist the tusk, ...

Researchers at Stockholm University carefully ground up bits of muscle and other tissue from Yuka and nine other woolly ...

A hunter looking for deer on a West Texas ranch instead discovered a rare mammoth tusk, researchers say. The tusk was sitting in the drainage area of a creek bed on the O2 Ranch in Brewster and ...

While hunting in West Texas, a deer hunter spotted a strange object in a creek bed. Suspecting it might be a fossil, he took a photo and showed it to a ranch manager. “I was skeptical,” O2 Ranch ...

While sifting through the juvenile mammoth’s genetic materials for traces of RNA, the team made another surprising discovery: ...

The recent discovery of a mammoth tusk suggests the massive, 10-ton beasts that once roamed Central Texas might’ve made it farther west than we thought. Sul Ross University announced its researchers ...

For the first time, researchers have uncovered Ice Age RNA preserved within permafrost mammoth tissue, offering a rare glimpse into real-time gene activity from tens of millennia ago. Researchers at ...