Evolution depends on random mutations to slowly ch...  ...of findings from the sequenced genomes of woolly mammoths , a Columbian mammoth , straight-tusked elephants, American mastodons, a...  ...imilar to an ancient African elephant, the Woolly Mammoth , and Forest elephants, t...

We know that men, particularly young men, tend to...  ...uman species, or even existing species. Unearthed mammoths reveal that males are overly represented in dying...  ...ice, mudflows, or sinkholes. We might assume that mammoths that died of old age or disease were exposed to t...  ...e and his colleagues ana...

Photographer Amos Chapple (previously at Neatorama...  ...share any names. See, the idea is that ivory from mammoth tusks are "ethical" in that no animals are killed...  ...o obtain it. That does not make the plundering of mammoth remains legal. But the market for such ivory in C...  ...men head into the Siberia...

Sergey Zimov has a dream to take a chunk of the Si...  ...as, they need the tree-trampling talents of wooly mammoths . Pleistocene Park is named for the geological ep...  ...weather version of the African savanna called the Mammoth Steppe. But when the Ice Age ended, many of the g...  ...Beringia with grassland...

James Bristle of Lima Township, Michigan, dug up w...  ...st thought was a fence post, but it was a bone -a mammoth bone! The farmer contacted the University of Mich...  ...be from mastodons. This one was a genuine woolly mammoth . Was there more to it? Fisher wanted to find out,...

In 1899, a story appeared in McClure's magazine by...  ...eman. It told of the time he tracked and killed a mammoth in the Alaskan wilderness, and sold the hide, tus...  ...a younger tribesman named Paul how to get to the mammoth stomping grounds. They found the cave, found the...  ...cave, found the valley, and...

Earlier this month, the 911 operator in the small...  ...this month, the 911 operator in the small town of Mammoth , Arizona, was inundated with calls wanting to kno...  ...n stories of being unable to contact relatives in Mammoth . The post got enough upvotes to promote it to the...  ...o the front page. Local...

Early man hunted mammoths for food for about a million years, and then sudd...  ...arranged with the aid of man. The bones are from mammoths of all ages, which tells us they did not die natu...  ...thropologist Pat Shipman presents a theory of how mammoth hunting took quantum le...

When you think about prehistoric elephants, it's e...  ...t prehistoric elephants, it's easy to confuse the mammoth (left) and the mastodon (right). After all, they...  ...s belong to the same family (Elephantidae) as the mammoth mammoth and mastodon both belong in the order Probo...

The 30,000-year-old body of a wooly mammoth recently uncovered by Jenya, an 11-year-old Russi...  ...the species discovered in at least 100 years. The mammoth had died at the tender young age of 16 after grow...  ...nt that it would’ve been hard for the young mammoth to de...