fbpx

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 free summer camp program possible at The Mammoth Site. During The Mammoth Site’s 50th anniversary celebrations, the Lang...

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 million years ago) and were not all semi-aquatic, tree chewing, dam building like the beavers we see and love today.  Some...

A Bone Voyage

By Greg McDonald “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...

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 species. Such discoveries make it easier to be confident that all of the bones are of a single species and that the...

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 centuries, they encountered a wealth of unfamiliar animals and plants. They generally called these animals by some version...