A mammoth tooth reveals bacterial DNA from 1.1 million years ago, offering new clues about diseases and hidden ecosystems in ...

A study published in Cell on September 2nd reported the recovery of the oldest host‑associated microbial DNA ever sequenced from mammoth remains, pushing the study of microbial DNA beyond a million ...

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 ...

DNA dating back over one million years has been identified in the woolly mammoth remains. Scientists who discovered some of the world's oldest microbial DNA also identified for the first time bacteria ...

New data shows Ice Age hunters used Mezhyrich’s mammoth-bone shelters briefly, highlighting adaptations in a volatile, frigid ...

A fossil hunter found a 450,000-year-old mammoth tusk while on a recent visit to a local quarry. Jamie Jordan, 33, was at a quarry in Cambridgeshire, near Peterborough, England, roughly 75 miles north ...

An amateur fossil hunter made a mammoth of a discovery. Chris Bien, 56, was taking a walk on a beach in Holland-on-Sea, Essex, England when she spotted a wavy line in the gravel near the water and ...

A jogger was left 'jumping for joy' after finding a rare 80,000-year-old baby mammoth tooth while out on a beach morning run. Lucy Parkes, who regularly hunts for fossils along the beach between ...