Somewhere in the frozen plains of southwestern Russia, a 40-foot circle of mammoth bones and tusks has stood for over 24,000 ...

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 ...

Phillips confirmed the tusk belonged to a Columbian mammoth, a distant relative of the woolly mammoth. Columbian mammoths ...

A woolly mammoth tusk unearthed in a coal mine where it had been buried for thousands of years has been carefully conserved during an unusual clean-up job. Belonging to the long extinct Ice Age ...

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 ...

TASS/. A resident of Russia’s Stavropol Region was detained at a Krasnoyarsk airport in eastern Siberia on Friday, when a bag weighing 10 kg and containing mammoth tusks was discovered in his ...

Its items all need to be given a barcode and packed individually. Objects range from mammoth tusks, Roman coins and photographs to much larger exhibits like vehicles and a lift from Selfridges.