Eventually they became pygmy mammoths, of course … I live in Northern California and have never been to the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, where there are mammoth fossils, or the Santa Barbara ...

By 1928, enough fossils had been found throughout the Channel Islands to make Stearns’ discovery the first of an entirely new species: Mammuthus exilis, or the pygmy mammoth. It’s an apt name for an ...

But what they found wasn’t what they expected. “It doesn’t fit the profile for a pygmy mammoth or their relatives on the mainland,” said Wilkins, a paleontologist from The Mammoth Site in ...

“It is likely the best-preserved mammoth skull, Columbian or pygmy, to be recovered from the Channel Islands. The size of the skull is quite interesting,” she said Wednesday. What’s piqued ...

If the find is confirmed, researchers hope it will yield further clues about the evolution and eventual extinction of the pony-sized pygmy mammoths. Scientists have unearthed mammoth remains at ...

But what they found wasn’t what they expected. “It doesn’t fit the profile for a pygmy mammoth or their relatives on the mainland,” said Wilkins, a paleontologist from The Mammoth Site in ...

They stayed, and, thanks to a phenomenon called insular dwarfism, their population eventually evolved into a smaller species – the pygmy mammoth Mammuthus exilis. These little mammoths stood ...

Fossils found in Siberia of a tiny woolly mammoth could be an entirely new species, researchers say, with some dubbing it a "Golden mammoth." The woolly mammoth is tiny and has been described as a ...

A graduate student this month photographed what some thought was a remarkable find: A complete tusk of a prehistoric pygmy mammoth. It turned out to be something far older. A team of researchers ...

Most researchers blame either the Earth's warming climate or the arrival of humans on the islands for the mammoth's demise, he said. But pygmy mammoths likely survived a steamier, more severe ...

MONICA BUGBEE, Preparator, The Mammoth Site: This is kind of an exciting discovery because Pygmy mammoths, even though they're really cool, everybody likes them because they're small, they're neat ...