An 18-year-old from Mississippi recently discovered a Columbian Mammoth tooth fossil while working on his uncle's farm, ...

We tend to lump all mammoths together as big, hairy elephant-like beasts with enormous tusks. But there were a number of mammoth species, including less furry ones that inhabited temperate regions.

Roughly 65,000 years ago, a nursery herd of female and young Columbian Mammoths roamed the basin between the Bosque and the Brazos rivers. Read More > ...

He noted that while mammoth teeth aren't unknown in Texas, they aren't especially common-and certainly not in thrift stores.

Both mastodons and Columbian mammoths, a cousin of the more famous wooly mammoth, lived in Mississippi and went extinct at about the same time. But they are distinctly different.

AMERICAN FALLS, Idaho — A portion of a Columbian mammoth skull and tusks have been uncovered in southeastern Idaho, and experts say a rare entire skeleton might be buried there. Experts estimate ...