The mummified woolly mammoth baby “Nun cho ga” at the site where it was found at Treadstone Mine on Eureka Creek in Yukon, Canada. Photo: Government of Yukon A find much more spectacular than gold: while digging in the permafrost in Canada’s Yukon on...
A 26,000-year-old mammoth skeleton found on Russia’s Kotelny Island off the coast of Yakutia provides new insights into the distribution of humans during the Paleolithic period. Image: Wikimedia Commons After the remains of a woolly mammoth were found on Kotelny...
An adult male woolly mammoth walked across a mountain pass in Arctic Alaska 17,100 years ago. The image is produced from an original life-size painting by paleo artist James Havens. The painting is in the Museum of the North at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks....
Scientists carried out an initial examination of the remains of a mammoth found a few days ago in Lake Pechevalavato, 25 kilometres from the village of Seyakha in the Yamal region. (Photo: Artem Cheremisov) Russian scientists are working to retrieve the well-preserved...