Mexican scientists have made important new discoveries after an airport construction project uncovered ancient Ice Age mammoth fossils.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A mammoth tooth unearthed in Mexico during construction of the Felipe Ángeles International ...

Both the woolly mammoth and the Columbian mammoths were New World branches of an elephantine tree rooted in the Old World. The first mammoths – the earliest representatives of the genus Mammuthus – ...

A groundbreaking paleontological discovery in central Mexico is reshaping scientific understanding of how mammoths lived and migrated during the Ice Age.Published in the journal Science, the study ...

The woolly mammoth may surprisingly have regularly interbred with a completely different and much larger elephant species, researchers now find. Woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) roamed the ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Thousands of years ago, ice age animals roamed the Las Vegas valley, leaving behind evidence of their existence, which can be seen at the Ice Age Fossils State Park in North Las ...