"Mysteries of the Ice Ages" opens at the Natural History Museum of Utah on Saturday, June 7, for a limited time ...

The researchers analyzed rare fossils of hatchling birds found in northern Alaska, which offered the earliest evidence of the ...

This adventure really began long before the mastodon discovery, when Gregory and his fiancé, Stephanie Yan-Chau, were seeking ...

About 20,000 years ago, when Europe was frozen in the final chill of the Ice Age, mysterious giants periodically washed up on the Atlantic shores of modern northern Spain and southwestern France.

What began as a simple search for arrowheads on an Iowa farm turned into an extraordinary encounter with the past. A teenager ...

A major collection of more than 50 bird fossils found in northern Alaska suggest some ancient ancestors of modern birds ...

When a student stumbles on a fossil that turns out to be over 30,000 years old, it changes the way science is seen – not as ...

Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...

Bill Hatcher Julie Meachen, an expert in Ice Age megafauna, skirts a dirt ledge called “the Saddle” deep inside a remarkable hollow in northern Wyoming known as Natural Trap Cave. She stops to ...

Ahead of a road construction project in Lubbock, Texas, the state's Department of Transportation sent archaeologists to ...

Molecular clues from collagen in old bones are teaching us about the lives, movements, and demise of Ice Age megafauna like ...

Cold-adapted animals started to evolve 2.6 million years ago when the permanent ice at the poles became more prevalent. There followed a time when the continental ice sheets expanded and contracted ...