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Ancient tooth found near Old Crow, Yukon, belongs to earliest woolly mammoth in North America

A tooth in the dirt with a knife in front for scale.

Scientists have discovered that a tooth found near Old Crow, Yukon, in 2018 belonged to the oldest known woolly mammoth in North America. The discovery challenges the popular belief that mammoths crossed into North America from Siberia in the last 100,000 years.


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