2006-11-14 - ELLENSBURG, United States.
Archaeology students and their professor are waiting on lab results to find out more about the mammoth bones they found in the Wenas Valley. They spent the summer digging, and made some interesting discoveries. Doctor Patrick Lubinski says he hopes the bison bone they found turns out to be just as old as the mammoth. They won't know until carbon dating results come back.
2006-11-01 - Crosbyton, Texas, United States. GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum in Crosbyton is a "must see" for anyone even mildly interested in dinosaurs. Also in the museum is the complete skeleton of a mastodon sticking its head through the acoustic tiles in the ceiling of a former furniture store. So is the skull of a rare four-tusked mastodon found in a gravel pit near La Grange. The giant tusk on a polished wood stand is one of Taylor's creations.
2006-10-31 - Washington, United States.
Parts of a fossil jawbone discovered by a farmer in Eritrea might belong to a "missing link" species that connects modern elephants to their ancient ancestors. The lower jaw fragments, about 27 million years old, were found in the Dogali fossil site, said Jeheskel Shoshani, the lead author of elephant evolution and professor of biology at the University of Asmara in Eritrea. The new species is named Eritreum melakeghebrekristosi, by the researchers, according to a paper that appears in the onli...
2006-10-30 - SPRINGFIELD, Missouri, United States. MARCUS KABEL
Riverbluff Cave is slowly yielding its fossil treasures:Lead paleontologist Matt Forir said every discovery raises new questions. Mammoth bones and a juvenile tooth dated around 630,000 years ago came from one of two species and it will require more adult remains to tell which one it is. "We either have the oldest wooly mammoth in North America or the youngest Meridian mammoth.
2006-10-27 - Lincoln, Illinois, United States.
Scholars thought the tusk was about 22,000 years old, but a laboratory in New Zealand, using accelerator mass spectrometry dating, has determined that the Sugar Creek mammoth apparently died about 11,600 years ago.. Illinois State Museum curator of geology Jeffrey Saunders, an expert on the Ice Age elephants, calls that "a surprisingly late date." It also is relatively close to when North American mammoths became extinct about 11,000 years ago.
2006-10-26 - Lincoln, Illinois, United States. ANN KLOSE
A 22,000 year-old woolly mammoth tusk is eased very gently into the McKinstry Library on the Lincoln College campus Wednesday afternoon. The prehistoric artifact is now much drier and more intact than when student Judd McCullum found it in two parts in Sugar Creek a little more than a year ago. It's the largest mammoth tusk found in Illinois.
2006-10-26 - TUALATIN, United States. Jennifer Clampet
Grasping the molars with his fingers, Dr. John George rolled a set of 11,300-year-old mastodon teeth in his hands. George and Portland State University classmate Ron Sund excavated the mastodon from a Tualatin field in 1962. George, who now lives in Raleigh Hills, is loaning the tusk and teeth for permanent display to the Tualatin Heritage Center.
2006-10-25 - Tualatin, United States.
A mastodon tusk and two molars excavated in 1962 in Tualatin will go on exhibit at the Tualatin Historical Society's Heritage Center. The items were kept by the retired Portland dentist who dug them up. Now, for the first time, they will be displayed in the city where they were discovered. Dr. John George, who excavated the bones from a swampy swale where Fred Meyer now sits, says the items will be making a rightful return.
2006-10-17 - ANN ARBOR, United States. Nancy Ross-Flanigan
The American mastodon, a massive, tusk-bearing relative of elephants, inhabited much of North America until its extinction just 10,000 years ago. New studies of bone damage on fossil remains of mature mastodon males—aided by 3-D computer graphics—indicate that some died of wounds inflicted by the tusks of other males. University of Michigan paleontologist Daniel Fisher will discuss the results at a news conference Oct. 16 during the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in...
2006-10-06 - Waco, Texas, United States.
The Waco Mammoth Site tells an amazing story of the prehistoric elephant's natural parenting instincts. Although not currently open to the public, the site is being considered for inclusion into the National Park Service. The archeology site is unique because it preserves a herd killed by natural causes, and it includes adults and juveniles, says Russ Whitlock, superintendent of the LBJ National Historic Park and state coordinator for NPS. "We can learn a lot about the period from the bu...
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