Mammoth Tales

In 1645, the twenty-seventh year of the Thirty Years War, Swedish armies inflicted a devastating blow to the Imperial forces in Bohemia and ...

On a Renaissance map of the world, there is a small white elephant standing near the Arctic coast of Russia. How it got there is a mystery. ...

I'm back. Did you miss me? You may or may not have noticed that, since last summer, I've more or less given up blogging. Now I think...

In all my years of blogging, the post that got the most comments was the simple question "Am I the only one who still thinks of unlined...

It's  ‪#‎ MammothMonday‬  and--Oh no!--my herd is in danger!

In an effort to make science even sexier than it already is, Hope Jaren has introduced ‪#‎ThingIStudyInAThong‬ on Twitter. This is my contri...

While hunting for some old images of moeritherium, I came across this : Everything on it is wrong. Admittedly, the order Proboscidea ha...

Here's a little story on CT scans of the two baby mammoths Khroma and Lyuba. The two are recent discoveries--found within the last dec...

Last January, Brian Switek, a rising star in the dinosaur firmament (his latest book ), made an offhand comment about the need for a periodi...

Although paleontology, as a defined science, has only been around for two hundred years, digging up fossils and trying to make sense of the...