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Six million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea wasn’t nearly as picturesque as it is today. It was barely even a sea; tectonic activity had raised a mountain range in the Strait of Gibraltar ...

A mysterious skull buried in the Australian outback for millennia is turning everything we thought we knew about a lost giant ...

Department of Cell Toxicology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, UZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Environmental Toxicology, Department of Geosciences, 72076 ...

A recent excavation in Texas yielded some “colossal creatures,” according to local officials – and archaeologists are hopeful more will be uncovered soon. The Texas Department of ...

The remains belonged to megafauna, which are large mammals. "We’re here to get the road built, but who doesn’t love digging up big ol’ animals?" Ringstaff added. TxDOT noted that the Lone ...

The Russell Sims Aquatic Center will have a new look. The bridge has been replaced, removing the old yellow bridge for a new wooden one that spans the pool. The slides have undergone some work as well ...

The West Plains Aquatic Center is making a splash this summer as it prepares to open its doors on Monday, May 26. Located inside People’s Park on West Broadway Street—just across from Butler ...

ECU megafauna researcher Amanda Hodgson said more frequent and prolonged warming events, like the one underway, could put ecosystems on the verge of collapse. "We haven't previously considered ...

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Few people expect digging for a road to lead to uncovering Ice Age megafauna. Before skyscrapers, cars or highways, Texas was a land of giants. A highway project in Lubbock uncovered colossal ...

The ancient animals were megafauna hunters, ultimately disappearing with the last giant ground sloths and mastodons about 13,000 years ago. Yet last week, Time proclaimed their second coming with ...