Professor Alice Roberts reveals the natural history of the most famous of ice age animals - the woolly mammoth. Mammoths have transfixed humans since the depths of the last ice age, when their ...

The mammoth-bone structure, located at a site in Russia some 300 miles south of Moscow called Kostenki 11, has long perplexed archaeologists. Why were our Ice Age ancestors building things out of ...

Focus: Tracing the transformation of tropically-adapted mammoths into highly specialised woolly mammoths of the late ice age Museum researchers are using fossil mammoth molars to study how animals ...

The primary purpose of the mammoth-bone structure remains unclear. While some researchers suggest it may have been used as a dwelling to protect against the intense cold of the last Ice Age ...

In 2018, they discovered a promising, well-preserved skin sample from a giant titan of the Ice Age: a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth. Typically, ancient DNA fragments yield short snippets of DNA and ...

Dallas' Perot Museum of Nature and Science displays a near-complete mammoth specimen, named Ellie May, which was found in 2018. The ice age giant is estimated to be between 18 to 20 years old and ...

The Ilford mammoth specimen is thought to be around 200,000 years old, living in a relatively warm period between two Ice Ages. The tusks are about 2.5m long and the skull, including the tusks ...

According to Texas Through Time, a fossil museum, the Colombian Mammoth skull was dug up at a sand and gravel quarry. This skull will be the centerpiece of a planned ice age exhibit at the museum ...