Instead, he discovered a rare collection of mammoth bones, believed to date back approximately 40,000 years. Marking one of the most significant mammoth fossil finds in over a century in Austria ...

“It quickly became apparent that it wasn’t just a few mammoth bones but very many mammoth bones,” she said. Parow-Souchon said they have “at least 300 bones,” which were found densely ...

Researchers studied chemicals found in the animals’ bones, teeth and tissues, as well as genetic material from their stomach ...

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).

Hundreds of mammoth bones have been uncovered in an Austrian wine cellar, in a discovery labelled an “archaeological sensation.” The remains are thought to be between 30,000 and 40,000 years ...