Dire wolves — or really, wolves with traits like the extinct species — are back. But New York has plenty of its own ...

Imagine you are taking a walk through rural Madison County, Mississippi, and stumble on a massive tusk that turns out to ...

Scientists have unveiled the oldest woolly mammoth specimen ever discovered in North America as part of a major DNA study ...

A baby mammoth nicknamed "Yana" was dissected by Russian scientists at North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk on March 27, pictures show.

Initially mistaken for the remains of a large modern elephant, careful analysis by a team of paleontologists from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras and the American Museum of Natural ...

The find was a femur bone attached to a Columbian mammoth, a herd member possibly killed quickly by a cataclysmic event. Researchers discovered remains of 16 Columbian mammoths between 1978 and ...

“It is probably an Imperial or Columbian Mammoth, which are larger cousins of the more well-known Woolly Mammoth,” said Dunn in the news release. “We lack good stratigraphic data on the east ...

The first mammoths arrived in North America long before the Old Crow mammoth. The earliest were Columbian mammoths (Mammuthus columbi), which descended from mammoths in Eurasia. These mammoths ...

In August of the same year, a fossil collector discovered a portion of a Columbian mammoth tusk in an embankment in Madison County, Mississippi. Reuters contributed to this report. Andrea Margolis ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known woolly mammoth fossil in North America — a 216,000-year-old tooth unearthed along ...

This summer, the Waco Mammoth National Monument will celebrate its 10 year anniversary of becoming a recognized site by the National Park Foundation. This designation was the result of over six years ...