The Museum of Natural Science has "snow much fun" for all.On Friday and Saturday, from 6 to 8:30 p.m., museum families can participate in activities such as face painting, creating holiday crafts, ...

World Snake Day is a popular event at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, and the museum will be hosting it again this week. "People can see and touch live snakes and learn how to distinguish ...

MDWFP’s Mississippi Museum of Natural Science is your kids' go-to destination for fun and discovery this July.

Mississippi Museum of Natural Science paleontologists confirmed the tusk did belong to a mammoth. "Mississippi was home to three Proboscideans during the last ice age: Mastodon, Gomphothere and ...

It was then taken to the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science and turned over to paleontologist George Phillips. Phillips said it's the first Columbian mammoth tusk ever officially documented in ...

When the team got the fossil back to a laboratory, it “was confirmed by the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science paleontologist as indeed belonging to a Mammoth,” the agency said in its ...

CANTON, Miss. (AP) — Fossil hunter Eddie Templeton was out exploring in Mississippi when he came across a remarkable find in a steep embankment. It appeared to be part of an ice-age elephant tusk.

“[B]ig enough to keep most people out of the water if it was swimming around today,” added Mississippi Museum of Natural Science paleontology curator George Phillips.

Where: Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, 2148 Riverside Drive, Jackson When: Friday, July 19, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Cost: Free with regular admission fee $8 adults $7 adults 60 and over $6 kids 3-18 ...

Templeton "knew it was a tusk" when he saw it, and notified the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality's Office of Geology and the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.

CANTON, Miss. (AP) — Fossil hunter Eddie Templeton was out exploring in Mississippi when he came across a remarkable find in a steep embankment. It appeared to be part of an ice-age elephant tusk.