Roughly 65,000 years ago, a nursery herd of female and young Columbian Mammoths roamed the basin between the Bosque and the ...

The Coyote Canyon Mammoth Site is seeking volunteers, as well as student interns, to help with its excavation. Visit www.coyotecanyonmammothsite.org for more information.

The nonprofit MCBONES operates the site as an outdoor classroom and laboratory for natural science research in an all-volunteer effort. Not only are the bones of an ice age mammoth being unearthed ...

By Annette Cary, Tri-City Herald April 30, 2012 12:00 AM ...

The mammoth bones were discovered in 2000. Between then and the establishment of the MCBONES Research Center foundation of the Coyote Canyon Mammoth Site some bones, including the lower jaw, ended ...

When scientists first dated the bone bed at the Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, it appears they underestimated its age by more than 100,000 years.

Inside each is about 3-1/2 feet of dirt that has been removed from the bonebed of the Mammoth Site. In the junior program, replicas of mammoth bones are buried for the young excavators to find.

The Colombian Mammoth, a vegetarian giant, the largest of all mammoth species, which weighed as much as 10,000 lbs. The site includes a so-called nursery herd of fossils of young mammoths.

The Colombian Mammoth, a vegetarian giant, the largest of all mammoth species, which weighed as much as 10,000 lbs. The site includes a so-called nursery herd of fossils of young mammoths.

HOT SPRINGS, S.D. (AP) -- Earthwatch volunteers have uncovered another tusk at the Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, raising the total number of mammoths discovered to 57.