Somewhere in the frozen plains of southwestern Russia, a 40-foot circle of mammoth bones and tusks has stood for over 24,000 years. This is the remnant of an ancient structure made using animal ...

The mammoth-bone structure, located at a site in Russia some 300 miles south of Moscow called Kostenki 11, has long perplexed archaeologists.

Before the Erie Moon Mammoths, there was a lone male mammoth, a Summit Township diver and an Erie County lake. Find out how ...

Site plan of the third mammoth-bone structure (2015); blue = crania/skulls and yellow = fires. Credit: Rey-Iglesia et al. 2024 ...

Supporters of the Waco Mammoth National Monument are celebrating 10 years since it became part of the National Park Service ...

When the nonprofit MCBONES Research Center, which is unearthing mammoth bones near Kennewick, needed help with a large and fragile bone, it called Kadlec Regional Medical Center.

Stone Age mammoth bones that are up to 40,000 years old have been found in an Austrian wine ... Another excavation came in the form of a 25,000-year-old Ice Age structure unearthed in Russia, ...

The crew looks for spots where erosion has made bones easier to find. Ivan Gorokhov cuts the ice, which is nearly six feet thick. The team removes layer after layer until they hit water.

The mammoth being unearthed appears to be a male, because bone growth plates take longer to fuse in males. He likely was about 40 years old when it died with a front leg growth plate still unfused.