Scholars found an ‘exceptionally well-preserved’ twisted 2.5 metre tusk on a construction site in Taimering in Bavaria, Germany, in 2021.

The researchers believe cut marks found on the tusk of the huge animal may have been caused by humans, most likely the work of Paleolithic hunters who killed the creature, Metro reports. 

One of the rib bones was found to have been used as a cutting board. Nevertheless, it is still unclear whether humans actually killed the mammoth or just made use of its carcass.