Reindeer herders in northern Siberia stumbled upon the 10,000-year-old remains of a teenage woolly mammoth submerged in a ...

Well, as it turns out, the hunter was right. It was a fossil—a rare woolly mammoth tusk, to be precise. In reporting the find, Sul Ross State University stated in a press release: “Juett said ...

Extinction is typically for good. Once a species winks out, it survives only in memory and the fossil record. When it comes to the woolly mammoth, however, that rule has now been bent. It’s been ...

A hunter in West Texas was searching for some deer. Instead, he uncovered a rare fossil from a prehistoric species.

To create the woolly mouse, scientists analyzed the genetic instructions, or genomes, of 121 mammoth and elephant samples to identify genes that may have given woolly mammoths some of their ...

According to Live Science, the hunter was exploring the O2 Ranch in Brewster and Presidio counties near Big Bend National Park when he spotted a mammoth tusk lying in the drainage area of a creek bed.

Officials can help with extracting the fossil safely, and the owner can ... "They're not as fuzzy as the woolly mammoths that you typically see in Ice Age films, but it was typically much larger ...

Palaentologists from March have thanked Peterborough fire fighters for donating vital tools used in the extraction of fossils ...