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A fossil tusk rescued from the sea proves mammoths swam to Southern California's Channel Islands much earlier than thought, and they beat humans there.

CT Scanning has revealed the grim last moments to two ancient mammoth calves that choked on mud more than 40,000 years ago.

The last of the woolly mammoths living in the Late Pleistocene in northern Europe may have suffered stillbirths and catastrophic birth defects, as signaled by extra ribs found in mammoth fossils.

A new European lineage of woolly mammoths has been discovered, broadening researchers' understanding of this enigmatic paleofauna.

A stunningly preserved mammoth fossil was unearthed on an island off the coast of Siberia

Despite the discovery of an amazingly well-preserved mammoth, finding enough usable DNA to clone one is still very unlikely, experts say.