An international team of scientists have discovered ancient fossil chromosomes preserved in a glass-like state in the skin of a 52,000 year old female woolly mammoth, revealing a treasure trove of ...

This story appears in the April 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Tusk and Sunset A mammoth’s tusk spikes the Siberian sky on Bolshoy Lyakhovskiy Island. Tusks that are discovered with ...

The ancient remains of a massive mammoth were discovered this summer in Texas, prompting a large-scale excavation. In June, two people were fishing in Central Texas when they found part of a fossil.

Close to the mammoth remains, the team also found a number of stone tools made by Neanderthals. DigVentures A research team led by archaeologists from DigVentures discovered "surprisingly well ...

It is the best-preserved woolly mammoth discovered in North America, experts say A whole baby woolly mammoth has been found frozen in the permafrost of north-western Canada - the first such ...

scientists "studied a small skin sample from the back of the mammoth's ear," said the Post. During an examination of the hair follicles, it was discovered that the "chromosomes in each cell were ...

C.W. Gilmore, of the geological department of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, D.C., who is with a party of scientists in Central Alaska, that they have discovered a mammoth frozen ...