Until now, the earliest known ivory artifacts came from the Upper Paleolithic, between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago. A few ...

Imagine you are taking a walk through rural Madison County, Mississippi, and stumble on a massive tusk that turns out to ...

Along with discovering pieces of animal bone, archaeologists uncovered mammoth ivory, which has a slightly different composition than bone and comes from the animal’s tusks. Some of the ...

Around 400,000 years ago, prehistoric people living in western Ukraine found remains of Mammuthus trogontherii, or steppe mammoths. The Paleolithic titans were just one animal that made survival ...

The world’s oldest modified mammoth ivory pieces may have been used by children to mimic the tools of their parents, or possibly as teaching aids to help them produce utensils of their own.

The biotechnology and genetic engineering company had set its sights on reviving the woolly mammoth, the Tasmanian ... from the extinct species' fossilized bones and using gene editing to modify ...