The hominins who lived at Gantangqing lived a heavily plant-based subsistence lifestyle. They had access to meat, and also ...

Well, the the important part is what scientists found in the teeth:the oldest surviving proteins every discovered.

Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many ...

Ancient DNA from prehistoric bones reveals a 37,000-year timeline of human infections, tracing our long struggle with disease.

In just the last several months, de-extinction — bringing back extinct species by recreating them or organisms that resemble ...

Supporters of the Waco Mammoth National Monument are celebrating 10 years since it became part of the National Park Service ...

Wikimedia Commons/Ammodramus Murray Springs, Arizona In March 1966, archaeologists C. Vance Haynes Jr. and Peter Mehringer Jr. found the Murray Springs site near a steep-walled gulch in southeastern ...

In the midst of a geothermal feasibility project, DMNS researchers made a more surprising discovery: a dinosaur bone from ...

Among the remains of at least 110 mammoths (gargantuan creatures that reached three meters tall and weighed some six tons), ...

The site is celebrating 10 years of educating visitors about the mammals that walked Texas during the Ice Age.

A jogger was left 'jumping for joy' after finding a rare 80,000-year-old baby mammoth tooth while out on a beach morning run.

Julie Curl, bone specialist and research associate with Norfolk Museums Service, confirmed the tooth belonged to a 'very young juvenile mammoth'. Lucy Parkes discovered the mammoth tooth.