Ghosts of the ancient past loom over the exhibit halls of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, casting their massive shadows across the concrete floor. Standing on hind legs, a roaring bear ...

The La Brea Tar Pits & Museum is finally getting a star attraction: Zed, a roughly 40,000-year-old Columbian mammoth. Zed was discovered two decades ago when the Los Angeles County Museum of Art began ...

The first ancient whale bones ever found in San Diego County were unearthed this month at an East Village construction site, beneath the remains of a Columbian mammoth that were found earlier, it was ...

MOSS LANDING, Calif. -- Scientists have found evidence of ancient land dwellers at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Researchers with Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute say they discovered a ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A third-grader's effort to designate an official South Carolina fossil has become law. Gov. Nikki Haley signed a bill naming the Columbian mammoth as the official state fossil.

Mammoth dig tour registration opens; $10 tickets often sell out quickly. Columbian mammoth lived during the ice age. Site is an outdoor classroom; volunteers and school programs can sign up. Kennewick ...