In fact, mammoths and mastodons shook the foundations of conventional thought. In place of the orderly old world, where each species had its proper place in a great chain of being, Cuvier was soon ...

KENOSHA — “At the Edge of the Ice: Mammoths, Mastodons and More” opens Saturday, June 5, at the Kenosha Public Museum, 5500 First Ave., and continues through March 2011. The exhibit explores the ...

It sounds a little odd, but it served as a rite of passage, and celebration, for the folks working on the Snowmass Mastodon Discovery Site last summer, where the bones of mastodons, mammoths and other ...

There are already mammoths and mastodons on display at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, but as paleontology curator Joe Sertich points out, “Those are just bones. They don’t really tell the ...

One of the most intriguing and intricate mysteries in paleontology is the disappearance of North America's giant mammals, or megafauna, which included saber-toothed cats, mastodons, and mammoths, some ...

FAIRBANKS -- A long, long time ago, a hairy elephant stomped the northland, wrecking trees and shrubs as it swallowed twigs, leaves and bark. These mastodons left a few scattered teeth and bones in ...