Mammoth Tales

Earlier this week, David Williams ( Stories in Stone ), Michael Welland ( Through the Sandglass ), and Brian Switek ( Laelaps ) began a seri...

The tireless Bora Živcović, AKA Coturnix of A Blog Around the Clock , one of the founders of the Science Online conferences, editor of the f...

At long last my vast knowledge of mammoth stuff is paying off . If you ever wanted to know more about mammoth molars--and who wouldn't w...

Today is March 14. Today is International Pi Day (3.14, get it?), which is traditionally observed by baking a pie. Albert Einstein was born ...

Construction workers drilling holes for a new overpass on I-5 near Ridgefield, Washington brought up pieces of mammoth ivory this January. ...

One hundred years ago, it was snowing in the North Cascade Mountains. By itself, there was nothing unusual about that fact. It always snows ...

Two years ago, I made a special trip to visit a mammoth excavation outside Yakima, WA. The mammoth was discovered by a construction crew pu...

NOTE: The Open Laboratory 2009: The Best in Science Writing on Blogs was released today. I'm excited that one of my mammoth pieces was...