Fossils from giant tortoises, armadillos and other Ice Age-era species challenge previous assumptions about the region’s ...

An Albuquerque museum curator was part of a team that identified a new species related to the muskox — one that roamed thousands of years ago and found its final resting place in what's now known as ...

CNN — The perfectly preserved remains of an Ice Age cave bear have been discovered in the Russian Arctic -- the first example of the species ever to be found with soft tissues intact. The astonishing ...

A paleontologist snorkeling through an underwater Texas cave stumbled onto something nobody expected: fossils of giant tortoises, saber-tooth cats and armadillo relatives that had never been ...

Scientists have identified the oldest known human remains in Northern Britain as a young girl who lived around 11,000 years ...

Oregon, a small archaeological discovery is once again reshaping how we think about early human life in North America. It is not a dramatic artefact or a famous skeleton. It is something far more ...

Deep in the high desert of central Oregon, a rock shelter hid two small scraps of hide for more than twelve thousand years.

A prehistoric hidden cave and hippo bones found beneath a Welsh castle could transform understanding of ancient life in Britain, researchers said Thursday, calling the site a "once-in-a-lifetime ...