mammoth bones
Ice age relics
Mammoth bones are the fossilized skeletal remains of mammoths—large, elephant-like mammals that went extinct roughly 10,000 years ago.
These bones turn up across the Northern Hemisphere, sometimes remarkably preserved in permafrost.
They're prized by paleontologists and occasionally by collectors: They found mammoth bones eroding from the riverbank.
- fossilPreserved ancient organism
- fossil recordRemains documenting prehistoric life
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
- tuskExtended external tooth
- skeletonInternal supportive framework
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