In 1873, the Little Rock, Mississippi River & Texas Railroad built a line from Chicot Point in the southeast corner of the state to Pine Bluff. The plan was to eventually extend the railroad line to ...

An amateur fossil hunter discovered the first Columbian mammoth tusk ever found in Mississippi. The 7-foot-long, fully intact tusk was tucked into a bluff near a stream that may have swept away the ...

Scientists have helped to unearth a mammoth discovery in Madison County.According to the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, their geological survey scientists received a message last ...

A 1-millimeter fish vertebra and a slightly longer, unidentified bone recently found at the Waco Mammoth National Monument will tell researchers more about the area’s ecosystem during the lives of the ...