They determined the bones belonged to a 40-year-old male Columbian mammoth, a large, extinct creature that once roamed North America during the Pleistocene (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago).

Officials in Tultepec outside Mexico City say the first woolly mammoth traps built by humans have been discovered ... least 14 mammoths — including 800 bones — making this quite a remarkable ...

Four images shared in social media posts were authentic photographs of a well-preserved mammoth skeleton discovered at a North ... trunks did not contain any bones, nor did they have sharp tips.

Researchers also discovered pieces of charred wood, as well as burned mammoth bones and the remains of plants similar to potatoes, carrots and parsnips. Nearby, they found three large pits.

State geologist Ed Murphy takes a picture of wooly mammoth bones discovered in northwestern North Dakota, 36 years after initiating the project.

Some 10,000-year-old (or older) mammoth bones that were dug up in Faribault County more than 100 years ago have finally been ...

As they dug around, they kept finding more and more, until thousands of animal bones ... were discovered at the site, dating to a period researchers consider the “peak” age of mammoth hunting ...

A bulldozer uncovered the first fossil 50 years ago, and experts have been finding bones ever since. The Mammoth Site museum ... Excavators have discovered bits and pieces of coyotes, prairie ...

This would be the oldest use of mammoth bones as building material ... As the oldest mammoth bone shelters discovered by archaeologists that were created by Homo sapiens date to 25,000 years ...

Baylor University on Monday formally transferred ownership of thousands of Columbian mammoth fossils and excavation photographs discovered ... field jackets of bones recovered from earlier ...

Among the collection, the mammoth bones truly stand apart ... thing is that there could be many more Utah Mammoths yet to be discovered. Dr. Lively is certain that undiscovered mammoths, mastodons ...

The ancient remains a massive mammoth were discovered this summer in Texas ... answers questions while giving a tour of mammoth bones located near the Brazos River outside of Waco on Sept.