A "mammoth"-sized object was found in Poland by a fisherman who discovered the Ice Age-era bone — which was "as thick as a human leg" — belonging to an extinct elephantid.

After making his way to the mammoth display, McKinney studied the bone structure. When he laid eyes on the mammoth’s back femur, he said, he “knew without a doubt I had discovered the bones of ...

According to the Penn State University Mammoth Genome Project, during the Pleistocene epoch – 1.8 million to 10,000 years ago – humans hunted mammoths for their meat and for building materials.

The oldest mammoth bones date to 12,500 B.C and range until about 11,800 B.C., suggesting centuries where humans and mammoths coexisted and humans used the bones “on a regular basis ...

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.

Bones of an ice age mammoth are being unearthed near the Tri-Cities, Wash. Sign up for a tour starting June 1, 2023.

Stone Age mammoth bones that are up to 40,000 years old have been found in an Austrian wine cellar, prompting a major archaeological dig.

Photos show the damaged skull. The mammoth bones will be cleaned, preserved and given to a museum, officials said. One of the mammoth bones found in Ak-Suu district.

Workers and archaeologists digging in an Ak-Suu district quarry found several large mammoth bones including a tusk, jawbone and skull, photos show. Photo from the Ministry of Culture, Information ...

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.