The complete skull of a mammoth from possibly 13,000 years ago was unearthed this week from an eroding stream in the Santa Rosa Island at Channel Islands National Park. News Home Page ...

Researchers believe Columbian mammoths, which stood up to 14 feet tall at the shoulder and weighed 20,000 pounds, made it to the Channel Islands about 160,000 years ago.

A team of scientists in Channel Islands National Park were on Wednesday brushing away centuries of dirt and trying to uncover mysteries of human migration and mammoth extinction with a unique fossi… ...

The skull of a mammoth — possibly roaming the planet 13,000 years ago — was unearthed from an eroding stream in the Santa Rosa Island at Channel Islands National Park. Buried in the stream ...

For close to 13,000 years, the mammoth bones were buried deep in dirt, sand and rocks in what's now a dry streambed on Santa Rosa Island, part of Channel Islands National Park off the coast of ...

Scientists believe 14-foot-tall mammoths swam out to the Channel Islands from the mainland nearly 20,000 years ago, possibly lured by the sweet smell of island grassland for grazing.

Until this week, one of the rarest and most remarkable mammoth skulls ever seen by modern humans had been buried in the soil of Santa Rosa Island for 13,000 years.

A rare, well-preserved fossil of a complete mammoth skull has been unearthed on Channel Islands National Park's Santa Rosa Island. A rare, well ...

This week's excavation of a rare and exceptionally preserved mammoth fossil — mammoth as in species not necessarily size — on Santa Rosa Island could be a game-changer in helping us understand ...

A pygmy mammoth skull in Channel Islands National Park. Story and photos by Chuck Graham I noticed the archeologist on the Island Packers ferry, and I knew what he was there for.

Reporting from San Diego — Scientists this week excavated the skull of an extinct mammoth from Channel Islands National Park that included both of the animal’s ivory tusks and is said to be ...

A discovery of a rare mammoth fossil on a remote island off Ventura continues to prompt scientists to search for answers. The fossil – the most complete skull found in the Channel Islands ...