Mammoth Site

A chance find in 1974 has led to a paleontological site in Hot Springs, South Dakota at which research and excavations are continuing.

Scientists from The Mammoth Site at Hot Springs are in Santa Barbara, California this week to take part in research on a mammoth skull. The findings may…

The Mammoth Site has unveiled a temporary exhibit that’s part of a new program called “What’s In Your Backyard”…and that has nothing do with mammoths. The…

The recent unearthing of a rare mammoth skull at the Channel Islands National Park was accomplished with the assistance of personnel from The Mammoth Site…

Volunteers for The Mammoth Site Excavation and Preservation Program are in Hot Springs this month. Participants lend their assistance to the continuing…

The Mammoth Site hosted a public forum earlier this month in which paleontologists offered an update on their recent work. SDPB’s Jim Kent attended the…

More than 26,000 years ago at the Mammoth Site, large Columbian and woolly mammoths were trapped in a large sinkhole and died. Their remains were buried…

How the discovery of some old bones led to the development of one of the world's premier fossil beds.

If you just can’t get enough of sciences that focus on the Earth, you’re in luck – because we’re right in the middle of Earth Science Week. The American…