Illustration of an 'American cheetah' (Miracinonyx trumani). (Julius Csotonyi/UAF) The Ice Age movies get one major thing ...

An international research team led by Dr. Gabriele Russo of the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen has re-examined historical fossil collections ...

Tasmanian devils are among Australia's most distinctive mammals. Stocky, powerful and famously noisy, wild populations are ...

A recent routine field survey in the Bay Area led to a rare and stunning prehistoric discovery of an intact tooth from the ice age.

Ancient DNA from fossils found in Wyoming and Canada's Yukon Territory suggests the wild cat more closely resembled modern ...

Skeletal remains of Tasmanian devils have been found in deposits from southern Australia to the tropical north, across the ...

A 23-million-year fossil record shows Africa's giant mammals slowly vanished over time because evolution stopped replacing them.

As dusk settled over the paddy fields at Puwakpitiya, a village on the northern edge of Knuckles Mountain Range locally known ...

A fossilized Pacific mastodon tooth believed to be at least 10,000 years old was found in “immaculate condition” in a ...

The fossilized molar was later identified as belonging to an adult Pacific mastodon, an extinct relative of modern elephants ...

A BONE SMALLER THAN A FINGERNAIL SAT IN A MUSEUM DRAWER FOR SEVENTY YEARS, AND NOBODY HAD ASKED THE RIGHT QUESTION ABOUT IT ...