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Image shows OeAI archaeologist Hanna Parow-Souchon (right), undated photo. She explained the location of the mammoth bones to the Langenlois City Councillor for Culture Sonja Fragner (centre) and the owner of the wine cellar Andreas Pernestorfer (left). (OeAW-OeAI, Th. Einwoegerer/Newsflash)

Vintner Discovers 40,000-Year-Old Mammoth Remains In His Wine Cellar

Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
Post published:June 3, 2024

An Austrian vintner has made a remarkable discovery after stumbling upon 40,000-year-old mammoth bones while renovating his cellar for the coming harvest. Winemaker Andreas Pernerstorfer was stunned when he came…

Photo shows a mammoth meatball, undated. Wunderman Thompson and the Australian startup Vow unveiled a mammoth meatball at the NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, claiming it is the world’s first meatball containing mammoth myoglobin. (Aico Lind www.studioaico.nl/Newsflash)

Mammoth Meatballs Row Set For Court

Post author:Joseph Golder
Post published:April 7, 2023

A company claiming to have invented meatballs made of lab-grown mammoth protein is set to sue rivals who say they created the process. Australian food firm Vow launched their meatball…

A recent study on the butchered remains of a mother and baby mammoth shows that humans lived in North America tens of thousands of years earlier than conventionally thought. See SWNS story SWSCmammoth;

Newly Found Mammoth Butchering Site Proves Humans Were In North America Much, Much Earlier

Post author:Simona Kitanovska
Post published:August 22, 2022

A newly discovered mammoth butchering site proves that humans were in north America nearly 15,000 years earlier than thought, scientists have revealed. The site from 37,000 years ago discovered bones…

Two proboscidean bones, a mandible and a femur, identified by INAH researchers. (Centro INAH-EDOMEX/Newsflash)

Digging Hole For New Loo Cistern Exposes Ancient Mammoth Bones

Post author:William McGee
Post published:May 24, 2022

A family building a toilet discovered bones from a mammoth in their garden. The remarkable find of the bones - believed to be up to 10,000 years old - was…

The exhibition named "Animals of the Ice Age – The world of woolly rhinos and cave lions" at the Natural History Museum in Austria's capital Vienna. (NHM Wien, Alice Schumacher/Newsflash)

Mammoth Fossils From Ancient Slaughterhouse Go On Show

Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
Post published:April 13, 2022

An Austrian museum will exhibit unique fossils of mammoths, woolly rhinos and cave lions from the last ice age found scattered in an over-21,500-year-old hunter station. The exhibition, named 'Animals…

The 12,000-year-old woolly mammoth tooth caught off the coast of Newburyport, United States. (New England Fishmongers/Newsflash)

New England Fishermen Reel In Mammoth Tooth And Use Proceeds To Send To Ukraine

Post author:Lee Bullen
Post published:March 16, 2022

New England fishermen were left stunned when they reeled in a 12,000-year-old mammoth tooth instead of their usual catch of clams and molluscs - and the charitable bunch has decided…

The mammoth skull excavation in the new municipal pantheon of Los Reyes de Juarez. (INAH/Newsflash)

Gravediggers Discover Body Of Mammoth While Extending Cemetery

Post author:Joseph Golder
Post published:December 17, 2021

Gravediggers preparing the ground for a new cemetery in Mexico were shocked to discover the plots were already in use as they contained the 10,000-year-old remains of a mammoth. The…

Prof. Dr. Wilfried Rosendahl, General Director of the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum, unveils the lifelike reconstruction of a hippopotamus in the exhibition "Ice Age Safari" in Germany. (REM, Rebecca Kind/Newsflash)

Hippos Inhabited Germanys River Rhine Whilst Mammoths Wandered Along The Bank During Last Ice Age

Post author:Peter Barker
Post published:November 4, 2021

A study has revealed that Germany's Rhine river was home to hippos around 30,000 years ago meaning the mammals that are now only native to Africa once wandered the European…

Bone fossils belonging to mammoths, which are determined to be 8 million years old, were found in Edirne

Turkish Villagers Find Remains Of 8-Million-Year-Old Mammoth

Post author:Feza Uzay
Post published:November 24, 2020

Turkish villagers have reportedly stumbled across the remains of an eight-million-year-old woolly mammoth in a large sand pit. The mammoth remains were at the sand pit in the village of…

Mammoth fossils that allegedly date back to about 9 million years ago, were found by a group of fishermen in Canakkale's Ezine district

Fishermen Looking For Big Catch Find Mammoth Remains Estimated To Be Nine Million Years Old

Post author:Feza Uzay
Post published:November 16, 2020

A group of fishermen who got together on social media to find the best places to find a big catch have reportedly stumbled on the remains of two nine-million-year-old woolly…