Woolly Mammoth Tusks Yield Clues to Animals' Lives

Woolly Mammoth Tusks Yield Clues to Animals' Lives: "Woolly Mammoth Tusks Yield Clues to Animals' Lives
John Roach
for National Geographic News
November 22, 2005

A woolly mammoth that died millennia ago nursed for at least six years, according to an analysis of one of its tusks. The finding raises the question: Did its mother finally get tired of being poked?"