Evidence on Arctic island show how people 10,000 or more years ago carved sharp slices off tusks to use for killing and cutting.
‘Full skeleton was illegally dug from ground in Siberia before being sent to UK and auctioned for £115,000’.
Over thousands of years, the giant beasts came to die in the same place - but the older ones were twice the size of the final mammoth generations.
Palaeontologist says osteoporosis could have been major contributor, brought on by a lack of minerals in habitat from climate change.
Scientists remain confident of one day bringing back the beast to roam again in Siberia.
Ancient hunters butchered woolly mammoths at Taba-Yuryakh site some 26,000 years ago.
Scientists get inside a woolly mammoth's head to understand behaviour of the extinct species.