Analysis of an Ice Age mastodon tusk found in Indiana reveals the extinct animal died 100 miles from home in a bloody mating season battle 13,200 years ago.
Researchers retraced the primitive elephant’s life – from regular migrations to its final moments – by scanning and carrying out chemical tests on a nine-and-a-half foot tusk.
Remarkably, they were able to show not only how the eight-tonne creature died but also its age at the time and where it had been