Boggess discovered woolly mammoth bones in the Hawkeye State in 2010. Jane Krutzfeldt, of Oskaloosa, was one of the first to see the bones on display Tuesday. She hopes it catches more attention.

Previous studies have established that woolly mammoths, distant relatives of today’s elephants, once roamed across North America, Asia, and northern Europe before going extinct roughly 4,000 ...

The ice age animal remains, including this woolly mammoth tusk, likely date back to the Middle Devensian period, which took place about 60,000 to 30,000 years ago.

Archaeologists in England have discovered the tusk of a woolly mammoth. The beast would have roamed the area during the last Ice Age, stretching back about 30,000 to 60,000 years ago.

Ice Age tells the story of Manny, a no-nonsense woolly mammoth, Sid the sloth, and Diego, a saber-tooth tiger who find a human baby and work together to return the baby to its tribe.

This mammoth is particularly interesting because she lived and died at a time when Interior Alaska was in great flux – 14,000 years ago, around the end of the Ice Age.