Research Projects

Lang Family Dig Building Dedicated

HOT SPRINGS, S.D. – Donations and support from local businesses, foundations and the Lang Family have made the opening of a new dig building and a...

Mammoth Site Awarded Re-Accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums

For Immediate Release Release Date: July 14, 2023 Contact: Claire Scarborough, news@mammothsite.org, 605-745-6017 Mammoth Site Receives Highest...

International Beaver Day

Kelly Lubbers, Bonebed Paleontologist Happy International Beaver Day!! Beavers have been around for a long time (since the late Eocene, about 33...

“I have been wonderfully lucky, with fossil bones — some of the animals must have been of great dimensions: I am almost sure that many of them are quite new; this is always pleasant, but with the antediluvian animals it is doubly so.” —Letter from Charles Darwin to his sister Caroline, October 1832.

Botany and Bones in Brazil

By Greg McDonald The first discoveries of the ground sloths Megatherium and Megalonyx consisted of single individuals that were not mixed with other...

The American Pronghorn and its Ancient Relatives

Richard S. White, Research Associate Antilocapra Americana (Walt Anderson painting) When Europeans began exploring the New World in the 16th-19th...

Saltpeter and Sloths

It was not long after Cuvier described the first fossil sloth, Megatherium, in 1796 that additional discoveries of fossil sloths were made. The next...

Mammoth Site Researchers Involved In Discovery of New Capybara Fossil Species

HOT SPRINGS, S.D. – Researchers from The Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, South Dakota have published the results of their study of a new fossil species...