Evidence of steppe mammoths, gigantic elk, brown bears, and other ice age animals have been pulled from an English quarry, in what experts are calling a significant discovery. “Finding mammoth bones ...

Most people think of mammoths as the iconic woolly species from the last Ice Age, which ended around 12,000 years ago. But mammoths originated in Africa around 5 million years ago, then spread and ...

A fossil hunter found a 450,000-year-old mammoth tusk while on a recent visit to a local quarry. Jamie Jordan, 33, was at a quarry in Cambridgeshire, near Peterborough, England, roughly 75 miles north ...

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, ...

An international team led by researchers at the Centre for Palaeogenetics, has uncovered microbial DNA preserved in woolly and steppe mammoth remains dating back more than one million years. The ...

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The oldest microbial DNA has been discovered in a mammoth fossil dating back approximately 1.1 million years. The finding is expected to help reveal the relationship between extinct animals and ...

A jogger was left ‘jumping for joy’ after finding a rare 80,000-year-old baby mammoth tooth while out on a beach morning run. Lucy Parkes, who regularly hunts for fossils along the beach between ...