This bone wasn’t the only trace of the prehistoric beasts the couple found after the storm last month — they also found a gigantic, seven-foot (2.1-metre) blue-tinged mammoth tusk, KTUU reports.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A western Alaska man has discovered a wooly mammoth tusk -- 22 years after his mother found one in the same location. The Alaska Dispatch News reports Andrew Harrelson, who ...

University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers were able to use strontium isotopes in a 14,000-year-old mammoth's tusk to retrace its life. Elma the mammoth's wanderings mapped across Alaska ...

The youngest mammoth fossils, found on Wrangel Island north of Siberia, are from animals that were alive 3,700 years ago. That’s when Queen Hatshepsut ruled as a pharaoh in Egypt.

Adelphi University archaeologists Kathryn Krasinski and Brian Wygal, unveil a rare 14,000-year-old mammoth tusk recovered during last summer's archaeological field school in the Alaska wilderness ...

Such tools were employed In 2021 when team members tracked a male mammoth’s travels across Alaska approximately 17,100 years ago. ... No direct evidence of hunting has yet been found in Alaska.

More than 20 years after his mother found a woolly mammoth tusk in a strange-smelling bend of the Fish River in Western Alaska, Andrew Harrelson returned to the scene Sunday morning and made a ...

HOMER, Alaska — A find here and a find there is one thing. Put all those finds together and a picture starts to take shape. Such has been the case with evidence of creatures that once made their ...

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An iconic species. Researchers aim to identify the youngest woolly mammoth to have inhabited mainland Alaska. Currently, that is held by one dated to about 11,600 years old.

Matthew Wooller kneels in the mammoth tusk collection at the University of Alaska Museum of the North in 2021. Wooller is leading the museum’s Adopt a Mammoth program, which will date and ...

TACOMA, Washington, April 12.-A mammoth, one of the giant elephants that roamed North America thousands of years ago, probably will be one of the exhibits at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.