Scientists ‘work out’ tragic fate of woolly mammoth found on construction site

Archaeologists believe a 2.5 metre-long tusk was from a woolly mammoth butchered by humans 25,000 years ago (Picture: SWNS)A woolly mammoth whose remains were found recently was likely butchered by our ancestors 25,000 years ago, new research has suggested.Archaeologists found an ‘exceptionally well-preserved’ twisted 2.5 metre tusk on a construction site in the village of Taimering in Bavaria, Germany, six years ago.Another 70 bones and fragments, predominantly from the rib cage, h