They determined the bones belonged to a 40-year-old male Columbian mammoth, a large, extinct creature that once roamed North America during the Pleistocene (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago).
South Dakota's Mammoth Site is a museum where visitors can watch paleontologists uncover ancient mammoth fossils in real-time ...
State geologist Ed Murphy takes a picture of wooly mammoth bones discovered in northwestern North Dakota, 36 years after initiating the project.
Woolly mammoths co-existed with early humans, who hunted them for food and used their bones and tusks for making weapons and art. Researchers point out that the mammoth’s ancestors - elephants ...
Gold miners are finding fossils and mummified animals from the Ice Age. Now paleontologists have an ancient wolf pup, a baby ...
Gold miners have been moonlighting as paleontologists in the permafrost of Canada’s Yukon Territory. With over 5,000 fossils ...
(Photo courtesy of the North Dakota Geological Survey) Some mammoth bones have been gnawing at North Dakota State Geologist Ed Murphy for more than 35 years. Murphy on Tuesday described for the North ...
Photo courtesy of the North Dakota Geological Survey. Some mammoth bones have been gnawing at North Dakota State Geologist Ed Murphy for more than 35 years. Murphy on Tuesday described for the ...
In 2023, coal miners near Beulah discovered a 7-foot tusk of an ancient mammoth. “There we had a beautiful tusk that was really in great shape,” Murphy said. In addition, 18 other bones or ...