Mastodon bones and teeth found in the Yukon were all older than 50,000 years old, while enduring farther south until about 10 ...

A long, long time ago, a hairy elephant stomped the northland, wrecking trees and shrubs as it swallowed twigs, leaves and ...

Scientists use changes in DNA as a type of clock to estimate how long two species have been separated. Researchers found that ...

“No American animal can be compared with the elephant, the rhinoceros ... stirred every heart.” Peale’s “mammoth” would turn out to be a mastodon, but “mammoth” was the word on ...

They came to their conclusion after comparing a genetic analysis of the two species with material derived from the extinct woolly mammoth and mastodon. The African elephant is much bigger than its ...

When a student stumbles on a fossil that turns out to be over 30,000 years old, it changes the way science is seen – not as ...

What is the difference between a mastodon and a woolly mammoth? Although both are elephant relatives, mastodons are distinct from woolly mammoths. Mammoths were more closely related to modern ...

Templeton was exploring in rural Madison County earlier this month when he stumbled upon what appeared to be a portion of an ice-age elephant ... Mastodon, Gomphothere, and the Columbian mammoth.

It appeared to be part of an ice-age elephant tusk ... and the team were dealing with a Columbian mammoth and not that of the more common mastodon," the department said in announcing the discovery.

“No American animal can be compared with the elephant, the rhinoceros ... stirred every heart.” Peale’s “mammoth” would turn out to be a mastodon, but “mammoth” was the word on ...