The frozen babies of Pleistocene (so far) - an exercise. Some details in the comments.

This is absolutely amazing, and makes me wonder if mammoths had the same capacity. #elephants #mammoths biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Is the universe trying to tell me something? #blackhills #windcavenationalpark

Your house is not haunted, there's a raccoon in your attic. And that is much, much worse.

Check out this great story on some of the work our own Christina Barron-Ortiz, Acting Curator of Quaternary Palaeontology, and her team have been up to!

Pair of massive bull elephants fighting at Kruger national park, South Africa. It’s moments like these that remind you just how powerful elephants are. Also, that poor tree got caught in the crossfire lol. (📸: Sara Zegut) 🐘

It saddens me to know that somewhere in America, right at this very minute, a well-meaning person is being hornswaggled by a recipe for some ginger-mandarin cranberry compote nonsense when the perfect cranberry sauce already exists and can’t be topped.

I'm guessing that this didn't end well for the photographer but I'll tell you this, this photo is bar none, one of the finest charging grizzly shots I have ever seen.

Winter break is just around the corner—it's a great time to get started on your internship application! Learn more about the program and how to apply by visiting mammothsite.org/internships/.

Our staff decorated a Christmas tree for Custer State Park’s annual Festival of Trees! Stop by the Main Visitor Center this month to check it out!

Wow, what a fantastic photo of this alert-looking Cougar captured on one of our remote cameras in 2020. Learn more about Cougars on our Biodiversity Browser, Alberta's encyclopedia of life: ow.ly/Ch1W50QfVkM #CameraTrapTuesday

A sleepy Barred Owl dozing in the shade this morning in the #edmontonrivervalley #birdwatching #birdphotography #birdsofedmonton #yeg #alberta #birdsofalberta #nature #natirephotography

Some days in the office are good!

One of our favorites - the American Pika. #FabPhotoFriday 📸: Morgane Merlin

Can he do that with Cybertrucks?

Preorders coming April 10! #hoofbeats #hoofbeatsbook

My story about horse domestication made this month's cover of Scientific American! Check it out and read more in Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History from University of California Press (is on Bluesky)

Ancient North Americans may have killed and eaten mammoths after all. sciencenews.org/article/dietar…

Full article: Predation, reoccupation, cannibalism, and scavenging? Records of small mammals in arctic ground squirrel middens from east Beringia tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Happy for this one to be out! Taxonomic, biogeographic, and biological implications of mammoth teeth from a dynamic Pleistocene landscape in Alberta, Canada | Quaternary Research | Cambridge Core search.app/x9hryvJnrqLBF5… #mammoth #iceage