Dire wolves — or really, wolves with traits like the extinct species — are back. But New York has plenty of its own ...

“The mere idea of bigness stirred every heart.” Peale’s “mammoth” would turn out to be a mastodon, but “mammoth” was the word on every tongue, gaining overnight “a fresh and ...

Mastodons and mammoths do have some similar physical features - they're both large mammals with a trunk, tusks and stocky legs and both have hairy coats,' Adrian says. 'The key difference is that the ...

After all, he said, 90 percent of elephantlike bones found in the region are mastodons. But a tooth that Sundell uncovered during digging indicated the bones were that of a mammoth that probably ...

Mastodon, that giant cartoon mammal that's been rampaging across the internet this week, is not the product of a Silicon Valley start-up. Instead, the social networking app that's been touted as a ...