The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) was a species of mammoth, the common name for the extinct elephant genus Mammuthus. The woolly mammoth was one of the last in a line of mammoth species ...

A PhD student in Canada just made a remarkable discovery that rewrites the timeline of Ice Age extinctions — after analyzing samples that had been left in a university freezer for over a decade.

So far, the remains of mastodons has not usually been associated with human hunters. Mammoths Mammuthus primigenius In the research literature, there has been some confusion about the species of ...

This geographic and climatic isolation is precisely what allowed woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) to survive on Wrangel until around 2000 B.C., at a time when major civilizations like Egypt and ...

Woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) are emblematic creatures from the last ice age. | Credit: LEONELLO CALVETTI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images Throughout much of Earth's history ...

A study published in the March 2025 issue of the journal Quaternary Environments and Humans offers a deeper understanding of the mammoth-bone structures at the Kostenki 11 site in Russia.

Elephantine in shape and size, mammoths (official name Mammuthus primigenius) dominated the northern hemisphere during Earth's last ice age for nearly 90,000 years, before changing climates and ...