There are some types of sunflowers that have been developed specifically for their yummy seeds. The burpee super snack variety only grows ... Perhaps the most common type to grow for harvesting seeds ...

This story appears in the April 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Tusk and Sunset A mammoth’s tusk spikes the Siberian sky on Bolshoy Lyakhovskiy Island. Tusks that are discovered with ...

Why Trust Us? The search for exploding comet residue strong enough to have wiped out the woolly mammoth has dipped deep below the Earth’s surface. Scientists believe they can find a meteor blast ...

How did the woolly mammoth, an ambassador of the Ice Age, end up confined to modern-day Wrangel ... [+] Island? And what ultimately caused their extinction? New evidence suggests it wasn’t poor ...

The itching usually strikes when he’s on the verge of finding what he’s looking for: the ivory tusks of a mammoth. The shaggy giants that roamed northern Siberia during the late Pleistocene ...

Danielle Hutchinson said she had been overweight her entire adult life - weighing a mammoth 23 stone and measuring a size 26 in dress size. The 32-year-old said her weight had seen her denied ...

Just like your BFF in middle school who knew how to scare away the "mean girls," some plants have their "friends'" backs (er, ...

They studied 21 mammoth genomes—13 of which were newly sequenced by lead author Marianne Dehasque; others had been sequenced years prior by co-authors Patrícia Pečnerová, Foteini Kanellidou ...

It is estimated that over 50% of the ivory sold into China is mammoth ivory. Most mammoth populations had died out by around 10,000 years ago although a small population of 500-1000 woolly ...