“The mere idea of bigness stirred every heart.” Peale’s “mammoth” would turn out to be a mastodon, but “mammoth” was the word on every tongue, gaining overnight “a fresh and ...

Archaeologists from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) announced the discovery of fossil remains ...

Authorities in Tamaulipas have reported the discovery of suspected mammoth fossils near Francisco Villa Ejido in the Magical ...

So far, the remains of mastodons has not usually been associated with human hunters. Mammoths Mammuthus primigenius In the research literature, there has been some confusion about the species of ...

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

Mastodons and mammoths do have some similar physical features - they're both large mammals with a trunk, tusks and stocky legs and both have hairy coats,' Adrian says. 'The key difference is that the ...

Mastodon, that giant cartoon mammal that's been rampaging across the internet this week, is not the product of a Silicon Valley start-up. Instead, the social networking app that's been touted as a ...