The rest is resin used to complete the assembly. The skeleton belonged to a male mammoth and was discovered around 10 years ago in the Siberian permafrost. Scientists say its teeth show signs of ...

The itching usually strikes when he’s on the verge of finding what he’s looking for: the ivory tusks of a mammoth. The shaggy giants that roamed northern Siberia during the late Pleistocene ...

guessed that the mammoth was an old male that when alive stood over nine feet tall at the shoulder and weighed four to five tons. From the dung ball, they learned heaps more. The absence of any ...

Scientists can work out a woolly mammoth's age from the rings of its tusk in a similar way to judging a tree’s age from its rings. Male woolly mammoths were thought to reach shoulder heights of ...