![Matthew Wooller of the University of Alaska Fairbanks kneels among a collection of some of the mammoth tusks at the University of Alaska Museum of the North.](https://abc17news.b-cdn.net/abc17news.com/2021/08/hypatia-h_cb899d5ef2f013bd63079337b43aa407-h_c867044b571ac905f75c6db060935566-300-375x225.jpg)
Mammoths were the original ‘ice road truckers,’ traveling vast distances across the Arctic
By Katie Hunt, CNN Mammoths covered huge distances in their lifetime. The beasts traveled the equivalent of the circumference of the Earth almost twice, information from the study of a 17,000-year-old tusk has revealed. Mammoth tusks grow by age — a bit like tree rings — and analysis of chemical traces in each layer of
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