2007-06-20 - Berlin, United States.
Archeologists have found a 35,000-year-old carving of a woolly mammoth in southwestern Germany. It is believed to be the oldest ivory carving every found, the newspaper der Spiegel said Wednesday. An archeology team from the University of Tubingen found the figurine in the Swabian Jura, a 722-foot-long plateau in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg. Five mammoth-ivory figurines from the Ice Age have been found at Vogelherd Cave in southwestern Germany. The new finds include well-preserved remains of ...
2007-06-19 - Des Moines, United States. Tom Alex
Bill Marnin of Stuart was looking for peace and quiet, not a piece of history, when he launched his kayak for a trip on the Middle Raccoon River. Instead, he stumbled on a tooth from an elephant-like creature that disappeared from North America about 10,000 years ago. Bill Johnson, curator of the State Historical Museum of Iowa in Des Moines, said Marnin's discovery, made last month on a sandbar near Redfield, is a very good example of a molar from a young to middle-age adult mastodon that lived...
2007-06-15 - Carlsbad, United States.
Fossilized mastodon tusks and other fragments believed to be as much as 220,000 years old were discovered at a construction site, according to the developer. Officials at Corky McMillin Cos. said Wednesday that two tusks, an upper jaw fragment with three teeth and vertebrae from a single animal were uncovered during grading for a new housing development. "This is the first mastodon to be found in Carlsbad, and we're excited to have uncovered two nearly complete tusks," said San Diego Natural His...
2007-06-14 - New York, United States. ETHAN WILENSKY-LANFORD
The hydraulic lift lurched up, bringing the back of an African elephant into full view. To Mike Peter Smith, who was cleaning the elephant yesterday, its spine took the form of a gently sloping mountain range with peaks behind the head and near the rear legs. That stuffed elephant and seven others at the American Museum of Natural History were getting their annual cleaning, a ritual that is repeated at least once a year for every bird, dinosaur, mammal and fish that is not behind glass in the mu...
2007-06-04 - McMinnvile, United States. NICK BRADSHAW
A pair of McMinnville boys made a mammoth discovery along the Yamhill River last week, literally. According to the McMinnville News Register, the two 10-year-olds were out exploring when they stumbled upon a strange looking stone. The newspaper reports Charlie Gilpin and Bryant Ashton took their find to Geologist Bill Orr who recognized the specimen as a rear molar of the ancient elephant-like mammoth.
2007-05-25 - Taipei, Taiwan.
It is the first time fossils from the prehistoric elephant have been found outside the southern region of the country, the China Post newspaper said. The newspaper said the fossil belonged to a newborn mammuthus calf that lived in the area around Shih-kang village in Taichung County 1.6 million to 2.2 million years ago. Scientists say the discovery provides new evidence of the animal's possible distribution through Taiwan.
2007-05-21 - Mesa, United States. Jon Johnson
A 1,000 pound, 2.5-million-year-old Rhynchotherium skull has joined the rest of its bones at the Mesa Southwest Museum on May 9 and is now one of the museum’s largest pieces. A Rhynchotherium is an extinct mastodont relative of the elephant with four tusks. The rhynchotherium died out during the Pleistocene Epoch at the beginning of the most recent Ice Age.
2007-05-01 - London, United Kingdom. Joe Palca
The discovery of a skeleton of an enormous, prehistoric elephant on the coast of England is an example of this ancient cycle of warm and cold. The bones of the 10-ton elephant were found protruding from seashore cliffs after a winter storm. We then did a rescue dig, says geologist Anthony Stuart, and we recovered vertebrae from the backbone, the lower jaw, and almost all of the rest of the skeleton, including the skull and the tusks.
2007-04-30 - Mesa, United States. Jon Johnson
An Ice Age fossilized skull discovered 20 miles southeast of Safford has, after several efforts, been removed from its home for the past 2.5 million years. The skull belongs to a rhynchotherium, an extinct mastodont relative of the elephant with four tusks. The rhychotherium died out during the Pleistocene Epoch at the beginning of the most recent Ice Age.
2007-04-28 - Sragen, Indonesia.
A resident has discovered fossilized mammoth bones near where the fossil of a prehistoric crocodile was discovered at the Sangiran excavation site on Java on April 20. According to Gunawan, the fossilized mammoth (Stegodon trigonocephalus) was found by Daryanto, a resident of Dayu village in Gondangrejo district, Karanganyar regency. Gunawan, a staff member at the Sangiran Agency for the Preservation of Ancient Sites, said this latest discovery took place April 22, but was only reported to his o...
No news?.
Sorry, no records matching your query.
