For more than 70 years, two big fossil bones at the University of Alaska Museum of the North were thought to be woolly ...
America is rife with stunning outdoor activities, including discovering the remnants of an ancient past. These destinations are a joy for fossil hunters.
Mammoth species in North America repeatedly interbred over thousands of years, creating hybrid offspring, a new fossil analysis has revealed. The findings alter what we know about the evolution of ...
The tooth of an extinct baby mammoth is considered a rare find in Mississippi and it will be at a museum in June.
Researchers first discovered the bones in September 2024, and have since unearthed nine or 10 bones including vertebrae, part of the tail, a tooth and an ankle. Clint Boyd, North Dakota state ...
In a recent study, University of Alaska Fairbanks paleontologist Matthew Wooller and his colleagues radiocarbon-dated what they thought were pieces of two mammoth vertebrae, only to get a whale of a ...
Sometimes the greatest discoveries are actually rediscoveries. In Canada, for example, researchers revealed North America’s most northeasterly woolly mammoth find after taking a second look at a ...
Another new species of ancient shark has been discovered at Mammoth Cave National Park.According to a post from the park, an ongoing Paleontological Resource Inventory discovered the new species while ...
La Brea Tar Pits – the only urban, active ice age excavation site in world – gets a mammoth face lift for the first time in nearly 50 years ...