Roughly 13,000-year-old skull was dug up last month and will be prepared for scientific study over the next several months. No paywalls. No subscriptions. Noozhawk is free for everyone!

Remarkably preserved mammoth skull unearthed on California island. Discovery raises questions of its species, any interaction with humans. CNN — ...

The mammoth skull was found by National Park Service biologist Peter Larramendy in a 13,000-year-old rock layer on Santa Rosa Island, the second-largest land mass in the island chain.

Aside from the pelvis, they found the skull and two tusks, along with numerous vertebrae (backbones), ribs and both shoulder blades from a woolly mammoth that lived as long as 15,000 years ago.

Scientists at the Channel Islands National Park, just off the Southern California coast, have excavated a rare and well-preserved mammoth skull fossil from Santa Rosa Island, the park announced Wednes ...

A massive mammoth skull dating back 40,000 years has been unearthed in Central Texas. The Texas Through Time Fossil Museum in Hillsboro announced the skull of a male Columbian mammoth, a distant ...

SOLDOTNA, Alaska (KPHO/CBS Newspath/WKRC) - A wooly mammoth skull went to auction. The ancient fossil will be auctioned off by Alaska Premier Auction and Appraisals, which was started in January ...

AMERICAN FALLS, Idaho – A portion of a Columbian mammoth skull and tusks have been uncovered in southeastern Idaho, and experts say a rare entire skeleton might be buried there. Experts estimate ...

A team of scientists on a California island are brushing away centuries of dirt and trying to uncover mysteries of human migration and mammoth extinction with a unique fossil discovery.