Registration opens June 1 for the second half of the 2024 tour season of the Coyote Canyon Mammoth Site just outside Kennewick, Wash. Tour slots for summer and fall months are expected to be snapped up quickly. Visitors on the public tours of the site will observe the ongoing digging, participate in screening soil, see […]
Voters in India began heading to the polls on Friday in the first phase of a massive election lasting six weeks, with seats in India’s lower house of parliament and another term for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at stake. The latest opinion polls put Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) far in the […]
Apr. 1—MOSES LAKE — Mammoths are kind of hard to find these days, but local folks will get to see the next best thing Saturday at the Moses Lake Museum and Art Center. The Wenas Creek Mammoth Foundation will bring its mobile education unit for the Museum’s Free Family Saturday from noon to 2 p.m., […]
The Senate passed a controversial six-bill government funding package on Saturday after a brief partial government shutdown. Senators voted in favor of passing the $1.2 trillion spending package by a vote of 74-24. The text for the group of bills was only unveiled in the early hours of Thursday morning, angering several Republicans in the […]
The Coyote Canyon mammoth dig site near the Tri-Cities is looking for volunteers and also is scheduling group tours. The remains of a Columbian mammoth likely killed in an Ice Age flood 17,000 years ago rests on a hillside outside Kennewick. As its bones are unearthed, MCBONES Research Center Foundation is learning about the environment […]
Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. There are constant reminders in our everyday surroundings of the many chapters of life that have unfolded on Earth. Rocks and dirt preserve evidence of the epochs that came before ours, […]
WAUSAU – Being a caveman isn’t exactly a lucrative profession in the 21st century. But The Mammoth Hunter of Wisconsin is giving it his best effort. His business cards identify him as an “experiential archeology consultant” and a “primitive skills specialist,” but Sean Sullivan, 40, is a teacher above all else. His specialty is making […]