Locality: Southern North Sea (Doggerland), trawled by Dutch fishing boats, Netherlands

Era: Late Pleistocene
Geological Age: Late Pleistocene, about 60,000 to 15,000 years ago

This mammoth bone fragment was brought up from the floor of the southern North Sea by Dutch fishing boats. During the last ice age, sea level was so much lower that this area was dry land, part of a plain now called Doggerland that joined Britain to mainland Europe. Woolly mammoths, woolly rhinos, reindeer and other animals of the cold "mammoth steppe" roamed it.

As the ice melted, the sea rose and drowned Doggerland, and its bones were left on the sea floor. Since the 1960s, Dutch beam trawlers have hauled up many thousands of fossil bones in their nets, mostly around the Brown Bank, and landed them at ports such as IJmuiden. Radiocarbon dates place most of this material between about 60,000 and 15,000 years ago.

The Naturalis museum in Leiden now holds about 9,000 mammoth specimens, most of them from the North Sea.

This one of a kind Woolly Mammoth bone fragment from the North Sea features a long, gently curved form with a flattened, blade-like profile and naturally weathered surface texture. The specimen shows cream, tan, grey, and dark brown fossilized bone tones, with areas of flaking outer cortical bone and exposed porous interior structure visible at the broken ends. Its elongated shape, hollowed inner section, and cancellous bone texture make it an excellent display fossil for collectors of Ice Age megafauna, prehistoric mammals, and natural history specimens.

Woolly Mammoths were large Ice Age relatives of modern elephants that lived across Europe, Asia, and North America during the Pleistocene Epoch. Bone fragments like this offer a direct connection to one of the most iconic prehistoric mammals of the last Ice Age.

Mammoth fossils are often associated with strength, endurance, ancient memory, survival, and a connection to deep natural history. As a display piece, this fossil bone fragment carries a rugged, archaeological look, with its weathered surface and preserved bone structure giving it strong educational and collector appeal. It is well suited for fossil collections, natural history displays, museum-style decor, teaching specimens, and Ice Age fossil enthusiasts.

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