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.

Long before the construction of the Felipe Ángeles International Airport, which lies northeast of Mexico City, the area was home to the former Lake Xaltocan and inhabited by a rich ecosystem of ...

Roughly 65,000 years ago, a nursery herd of female and young Columbian Mammoths roamed the basin between the Bosque and the Brazos rivers. Grandmother Columbian Mammoths bestowed wisdom on younger ...

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.

Mammoths and mastodons are similar. Both resemble modern elephants such as the Asian elephant. Both mastodons and Columbian mammoths, a cousin of the more famous wooly mammoth, lived in Mississippi ...