Mammoth Tales

Consider this: The current New York Times Magazine has an article by Nathaniel Rich on de-extinction--the idea of using genetic tools, such...

Oh, look. Someone found a tusk about five minutes from where I used to live. It's almost certainly not a woolly mammoth. No woolli...

Most orca populations around the world have low genetic diversity, which can present a conservation problem for those populations. A new gen...

Writing seventy years after the fact, this is how Polybius described the Battle of Raphia between the Egyptian armies of Ptolemy IV and the ...

The most important early discovery of mastodon bones happened in 1739 at a place called (in a gift to thirteen year old boys everywhere) Bi...

While putting up my last post, I noticed That it's been five weeks since my last post. What's that all about? As I said in the last ...

Robinson Meyer is an associate editor at The Atlantic , where he usually covers the technology beat. I'm not sure that I've read tha...

I think I'll do these weekly. In the last week, I finished on chapter and started another. That means the week involved as much resear...

Over on Facebook I've begun posting daily progress reports on the book. Here's what I have for the month: I started the month severe...

My epic smackdown or the mighty and majestic Oxford English Dictionary continues! The OED says the first time the word "mammoth" (...