The Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (MMNS) will host Fun Friday: Backyard Wildlife on July 18. Attendees will be able to learn more about the natural world just ...

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, ...

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 ...

Mississippi is a diverse place that is rich in culture and with that comes a lot of interesting and beautiful places to visit ...

The Mississippi Museum of Natural Science also offers a variety of nature trails for visitors to explore. These trails are perfect for families who enjoy hiking and exploring the great outdoors.

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.

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.

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.