Scientists have performed a necropsy on a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth discovered in Siberia. The female mammoth, nicknamed ...

Humans have remodeled the Earth so profoundly that in 2000, atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen and biologist Eugene Stoermer ...

Across the world, eerie "death pits" have entombed thousands of creatures, creating fossilized mysteries that scientists are ...

With the impending ice age almost upon them, a mismatched trio of prehistoric critters – Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger and Sid the giant sloth – find an orphaned ...

Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Cytochemistry, School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha 410114, PR China Hunan Provincial Key ...

There’s something fascinating about prehistoric times, and it gets even more intriguing when you bring those ancient matters into our own world. Many movies deal with prehistory one way or ...

The planet’s earliest mammals are an important part of our evolutionary history, yet remain shrouded in mystery. One of them, Mixodectes pungens lived in western North America during the early ...

As Shakespeare put it, we all have our entrances and our exits on this grand stage we call life, and now researchers have identified the specific point in middle-age when our brain cells show the ...

A popular pastime among Americans of a certain age is to wage an internal debate about when to claim Social Security: At age 62? Sixty-five? Seventy? In purely monetary terms, as it turns out ...

The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site is starting a new dig in an area where dinosaur bones were previously found, and experts hope it will reveal new insights into the state’s Jurassic-era history.

And although 1.2 million years sounds ancient enough, the scientists believe that there is even more potential for yet an older ice, which could date back to the pre-Quaternary period, about 2.58 ...

Now, researchers have uncovered a substantial cache of prehistoric bone tools in the ... bone tools carefully selected the bones of large mammals, most commonly elephant and hippopotamus.