An analysis of the bones and teeth of ancient mammoths (Mammuthus) has identified some of the microorganisms that lived in the animals’ mouths and bodies more than one million years ago. The study, ...

Sequencing mammoth DNA has already helped scientists map out how these Ice Age giants evolved, migrated, and survived. But there's a hidden layer of history still waiting to be decoded – the microbes ...

It was a tooth from a 10,000-year-old mammoth. Groundskeeper Patrick Walker found the 10-pound tooth last week on the golf course near Grand Rapids, Mich. The mammoth tooth was exposed by heavy rains.

SHELDON, Iowa -- A man made a prehistoric, "once-in-a-lifetime" discovery in Iowa. He discovered a woolly mammoth tooth while on a construction site in the city of Sheldon, CNN reported. It weighs a ...