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

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

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 ...

Of extinct Ice Age animals, woolly mammoths are probably one of the most famous. But if they were still around, then our ...

This adventure really began long before the mastodon discovery, when Gregory and his fiancé, Stephanie Yan-Chau, were seeking ...

A fossilized elephant skull found in the Kashmir Valley is reshaping how scientists understand an ancient giant’s past.

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

Fossil evidence indicates multiple mammoth species existed ... But New York’s relationship to the elephant ancestors has a long history. The first mastodon fossil ever discovered in the country ...

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 ...

A complete mastodon jaw was discovered in the ... The term refers to a group of massive elephant-like species, like the mammoth. "When I found the teeth and examined them in my hands, I knew ...

A mastodon is an ancient beast similar to a mammoth and related to the elephant. It took 12 days for archaeologists and local enthusiasts to carefully unearth several skull bones. Using ...

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.