The Ilford mammoth specimen is thought to be around 200,000 years old, living in a relatively warm period between two Ice Ages. The tusks are about 2.5m long and the skull, including the tusks ...

divers are searching beneath the ice for their bones. Yakutia, part of which is north of the Arctic Circle, encompasses the coldest inhabited place on earth. Some of the oldest mammoth fossils ...

Mammoths (Mammuthus) are prehistoric beasts that roamed tundra ecosystems during the last ice age (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago), but their evolutionary history goes back farther than that.

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. What separates a mammoth from an elephant? Previous genetic research looking into this question has focused largely on point mutations (also ...

and explore the underside of the sea ice coated in algae, the source of around half of the oxygen on the planet. Their next stop is Disko Bay in Greenland, where they visit Jakobshavn, a mammoth ...