The shoreline is really a process at work rather than a permanent line,” writes columnist Gary Griggs. “People have been ...

If Yellowstone is dangerous now, it’s a cakewalk compared to the Pleistocene age where humans had to contend with mammoths, ...

“Our study reveals that the bones came from at least five species of large whales, the oldest of which date to approximately ...

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

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

The Coyote Canyon Mammoth Site in Kennewick is calling for volunteers to support its ongoing research and public education ...

Across the icy edges of Earth’s northern and southern reaches, life has adapted to thrive in some of the harshest conditions.

Divers discover 500,000-year-old fossils in a Florida sinkhole on the Steinhatchee River, revealing the existence of ancient ...

Europe’s mammal recovery is a rare bright thread in the tangle of biodiversity loss. It shows that given the right conditions ...

Breakthrough study reveals how woolly mammoths and Arctic animals evolved their cold-weather superpowers over 3 million years ...

The findings, which offer a greater understanding of how species evolved in the past, were published in the journal Trends in ...

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 ...