Scientists in search of ancient tusks made a startling discovery. They uncovered the nearly perfectly preserved remains of a woolly mammoth in northern Siberia. The juvenile mammoth is believed to be ...

SHELDON, Iowa -- A man made a prehistoric, "once-in-a-lifetime" discovery in Iowa. He discovered a woolly mammoth tooth while on a construction site in the city of Sheldon, CNN reported. It weighs a ...

A major breakthrough in paleontology has shifted our understanding of the woolly mammoth’s presence in North America. A 216,000-year-old mammoth tooth, discovered along the Old Crow River in the Yukon ...

The frozen wilderness of Canada’s Yukon Territory has given us a glimpse into Earth’s forgotten past. A miner digging for gold turned over his shovel only to come face-to-face with the well-preserved ...

In 2010 Yukaghir hunters found the nearly intact carcass of a young woolly mammoth frozen in the northern Siberian permafrost. With its reddish-brown fur still clinging to its skin, the dog-sized calf ...

Long before modern humans built cities or carved out farms, woolly mammoths wandered across frozen plains with thick coats and steady steps. Their bones, tusks, and frozen bodies have offered clues to ...

In whatever fashion the mammoth died, its body lay undisturbed for millennia, until it was uncovered during the fall of 1848 by some undoubtedly surprised railroad workers. These were the first woolly ...

In a case of mistaken identity, fossils from two whales were disguised as the backbones of a woolly mammoth. The fossilized remains were kept at a museum for decades ...